Veterans Day Requiems for Our Fallen Counterterror Warriors

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

This is an update of a tribute I wrote on Memorial Day 2022.

Veterans Day honors all our fallen, but the costs over the past 20-plus years now have been borne mostly by those sent to battle Al Qaeda and ISIS or their affiliates across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

And they’re still paying. In the first four months following Hamas‘ attack on Israel la…