Remembering Jose

He was a Mortarman, he was a Friend, and now he is a Ghost

The year is 2013.

The Freedom Registry at the George W Bush Presidential Library on the campus of Southern Methodist University

I am in Berkeley, California, preparing to fly to Fort Benning, Georgia.

One of my buddies from the war is facing a Court Martial.

Jose is a Staff Sergeant, a mortarman who during a six-kilometer long ambush in Helmand, resisted…