Veterans’ Day, and House Progressives

Danny Sjursen is a retired US Army officer, contributing editor at Antiwar.com, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and director of the soon-to-launch Eisenhower Media Network. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, HuffPost, The Hill, Salon, The American Conservative, Mother Jones, ScheerPost, and TomDispatch, among other publications. He served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point. He is the author of a memoir and critical analysis of the Iraq War, Ghostriders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge and Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War. Along with fellow vet Chris “Henri” Henriksen, he cohosts the podcast Fortress on a Hill. Follow him on Twitter @SkepticalVet and his website.

Mary Small is Legislative Director for Indivisible.org