You Are The Light Of The World

Since his cadet days at the Citadel, Timothy Martin had wished to spend a part of his life serving his great nation as an American soldier. Two stress fractures in his spine during college crushed any dreams of becoming a healthy war-fighter, so he jumped on the opportunity to become a civilian contractor in Afghanistan supporting the Operation for Enduring Freedom. Writing became the only way he could cope with what he was witnessing in Afghanistan; his memoir recounts this period.