Graham Platner Went to Hell and Back. He Has a Simple Message for Democrats. |
Graham Platner Went to Hell and Back. He Has a Simple Message for Democrats.
Mr. Rhodes, a contributing Opinion writer, is the author of the forthcoming “All We Say: The Battle for American Identity.” He served in the Obama White House.
Americans have a dysfunctional relationship with 21st-century wars. Most of us do not fight in them, see the carnage or live with their physical and psychological ruins. Yet we cannot heal our own nation unless we reckon with their monstrous futility.
For Graham Platner, that reckoning began when he was a 20-year-old infantryman in Iraq. His........