This feeling was agony. It was a long way from the Cascade foothills of his hometown of Monroe, Washington, to the top of a Humvee turret in Bakwa, Afghanistan, and on that day, August 6 ...
As we head back down another dirt road, the blackened remains of another Humvee - its armour cracked wide open and its turret gone - lies by the roadside, the victim of an earlier attack.