Peter S. Kindsvatter served in the U.S. Army for twenty-one years and is now the Command Historian at the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and Schools, Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning, and despair. This was certainly true for twentieth-century American ground troops. Whether embracin... SEE MORE