About the Author
DAVID WOOD has reported on wars and conflict around the world for more than thirty-five years. His series on severely wounded American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Wood grew up as a Quaker and in the 1960s spent two years in national civilian service as a conscientious objector. Since then he has covered conflicts in Europe and Central America and across Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. He has embedded with U.S. troops many times in war zones and in domestic training. At home, outside Washington, D.C., he bicycles for sport while waiting for cold weather and ice climbing.
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