20 years ago I was in Camp Pennsylvania on the Kuwait/Iraq…

20 years ago I was in Camp Pennsylvania on the Kuwait/Iraq border waiting for 101st Airborne to cross and enter the war. It was the middle of the night and three successive blasts woke me. My tent was burning down around me and a scud middle alert went off. At the same time a British Tornado jet crashed at the outskirts of the camp. Half naked and wearing a gas mask I ran into the night. This was what confronted me.

Army Sgt Asan Akbar threw grenades into his commander’s tents and mortally wounded Maj Gregory Stone.

Years later I would be walking in Arlington Cemetery during Memorial Day and randomly came across Major Stone’s tombstone. I have never understood how I ended up there.

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