The Washington Post Greg Jaffe | Photos by Matt McClain 1 day ago Fort Campbell - Fort Campbell, KY Fort Campbell - Fort Campbell, KY To get to a place where the Afghanistan war is something not yet forgotten, drive from civilian America onto this 164-square-mile military base. Pass the armed guards who check for military identification and the four-story Warrior Transition building that houses wounded soldiers, and keep going into one of the base’s residential neighborhoods of identical two-story houses. Inside one of those homes, Lt. Col. Chris Hossfeld is in the family room reviewing a video from his first combat tour 10 years ago. “Watch right there,” he says, pointing at a sandbagged window on the second floor of his old combat outpost in Iraq. There’s a spurt of gunfire from the spot where one of Hossfeld’s soldiers, Pfc. Oscar Sanchez, 19, was standing guard duty. A split second later a dump truck, containing more than 1,500 pounds of explosives and spee...
HONORING ALL VETERANS. PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE. LET US NOT FORGET THE ONES WHO HAVE PASSED TO THEIR FINAL ROLL CALL