For Veterans, the Forever Wars Are Not Over

Ron Capps, a former Army intelligence officer and crisis-scene diplomat, embraces fellow veterans with heartbreaking songs of loss and recovery.

President Lincoln ordered graves for the Union’s fallen to be dug on the Arlington, Va. lawn of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s former mansion, “in part to ensure that Lee would never again be able to return to his home.”

Veterans Day honors all our fallen in service, but the costs over the past 20-plus years now have been borne mostly by those sent to …