Colby Buzzell

With armed protesters outside their mosque and freedom of religion and the right to carry crashing together o…

Colby Buzzell's official slogan, "Live Your Passion," which, as it turns out, is also the official slogan of …

These days I've relocated to a new city. There's a bar right around the corner that I sometimes go to, to pic…

Bobby Henline at the Uptown 78 Lounge in San Antonio, Texas, before performing his comedy routine. Henline, 4…

Firing lumination rounds in Iraq. Photo via United States Forces Iraq Fuck the Fourth of July. This was my at…

Stuck on my dashboard where everyone can see is my Combat Infantry Badge. It's a medal given to soldiers "who…

Shortly after, I found out that Blickenstaff, just 23, and two other soldiers I knew were the ones in that ve…

After a three-year absence, I returned to the Tenderloin a cliché, another down-and-out veteran with no job a…

I've started looking for a place to move. The other day my landlord posted a notice on my door announcing tha…

Williams is no fiction writer, and no combat veteran, either. He's a journalist. His job is non-fiction.

Americans love war movies - they always have - and they love their movies far more than they love going to wa…

Even Iraq war veterans find out what's happening in Iraq on Facebook. A couple months ago, when the terrorist…

The Iraq War - what was it good for? Absolutely nothing? That's yet to be seen. As an Operation Iraqi Freedom…

Only the dead have seen the end of war. -Plato An ominous Facebook message: So what do u think? I asked mysel…

YEARS after I first returned from Iraq and started having thoughts and visions of killing myself, I'd call th…

This is the fourth part of a six-part series. Ten years ago this week, on March 20, 2003, the United States i…

When I graduated from high school in 1995, I flirted with the idea of enlisting in the military but decided a…

Eight years after returning from Iraq and leaving the U.S. Army, the Detroit Veteran Hiring Fair held last we…

I asked a couple co-workers, like me, Iraq War veterans, what they think of the photographs printed this week…

The Iraq war is over. Should we throw a parade? After all, the Super Bowl champion New York Giants got one th…

From the ten-dollar-a-month tent by the tracks to the residence hotels of the Tenderloin, life at the bottom …

Three years out of the army, diagnosed with PTSD, I recently got a nice letter from the pentagon saying they'…

When I voluntarily enlisted in the Army, I remember asking my recruiter about the fine print on the contract …

The president will be giving his last big assessment of our country later this month. He's a busy man, not ab…