It’s been a very long time since we’ve heard from milblogger Thunder6. In preparing a speech for a civics event he wrote about why he joined the Army, what the Army teaches you, deployments, the strength needed to pull yourself through these deployments and the loss of a close mentor and friend.

If you are not familiar with Danjel’s (Thunder6) war blogging, you’ve missed something very special.

Go, start at the beginning of 365 Wake Up.

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