Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin, an Iraq War veteran, is the author of In Country and The Stick Soldiers. Back in 1999, during a fall basketball league in Twinsburg, Ohio, he was dunked on by LeBron James. (hugh-martin.com)
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Hoddernot
We posted pictures of ourselves in uniform, desperate to benefit from serving in a war many of us didn’t understand, desperate for a connection and for someone to acknowledge us and, ultimately, acknowledge that a war was going on, that it was real.
July 2026
Poetry
All The While The Women
Days & nights I carried two weapons everywhere. / I wore pockets of bullets / across my chest. I wasn’t / of age.
July 2018
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