On Whether I Should Kill a Child

A story from my upcoming war memoir, Where Cowards Go to Die

Staff Sergeant K.C. Wegener helps treat a child injured by a suicide bomber | Photo courtesy of author

Staff Sergeant K. C. Wegner crouched behind the lip of a rooftop wall, scanning buildings. Hours earlier, he and Corporal Jacob Starnes had volunteered to take overwatch during the time they knew to be most dangerous. Now several days into a series of operations designed to retake the city of Ramadi, Wegner…