benjamin jones returned to pennsylvania, a few miles from where he grew up.nick, he took advantage of educational opportunities after the army, and that helped him get a job with the police. but a decade ago, like most of the married men in the platoon, he found his relationship in a downward spiral. i don't know if it was because i had changed or she had changed or we both did. but we weren't the people we had been. and itjust didn't work any more. it was a long road home for cody edmondson, back to his roots in oklahoma. he works in construction, like he did before the army, putting life back together after his first marriage and his ambition to be an army pilot collapsed. but even getting back from dora years ago, he knew things were wrong. so they've set up an all—new routine, and you're kind of like, oh, your kid doesn't recognise you for the first two weeks or whatever, so it is a difficult position to be in. but the marriages didn't fare well. after the army, dorian perez studied agriculture. he has been working with farmers, encouraging better practic

.# in pennsylvania, benjamin jones, meanwhile, is remarried, has a newjob at the police, and is raisingilliam gibson, who was killed in dora. everyone says, oh, he was named after the guitar. i say no, he's not named after the guitar, he's named after one of my friends who died in iraq. i feel if we forget, if we forget our fallen brothers, that we are invalidating them. because if we don't remember them, and if we don't tell their stories, and talk about what kind of men they were, who is going to remember them? and if they are not remembered, was what they did, was the sacrifice that they made, even worthwhile? there are countless reminders of the ways in which the second platoon is still fighting. and their experience now marks the next generation as well as their own. good morning. well, saturday was certainly a shock to the system, wasn't it? cold for all of us, but really it was a day of mixed fortunes, because for some there were beautiful spells of sunshine. a beautiful weather watchers picture sent in from keswick in cumbria. however, if you were caught under the showers, it wa

benjamin brown french. i remember didn't had a lot of personal details. it was interesting. it was not, had lunch with mr. smith, coffee with mr. jones.talked about what he felt and salt. the more i looked at the diary and learned about him, he wasn't the ideal person to put at the core of the book because he starts out at whatever time would be called a dough faced democrat. he was a northern democrat willing to do anything to appease the south, to promote his party and preserve the union. he bought a gun in preparation to shoot southerners. when i understand the transformation he undergoes, with him at the center of the book, even though it is about more than him, the reader meets him at the beginning and watches him transform over the course of the chapters to get to that end point where he is thinking about how and where he might have to shoot other americans. that is a remarkable transition and it really shows you something about the deeper emotional logic of the approach of the war. brian: i have to ask you about the diary. joanne: 11 volumes. brian: handwritten? joanne: handwritten. he was a clerk, so he had good handwriting. h