Military Service, Sacrifice, Storytelling, and Honoring the Fallen: Les Carroll on Afghanistan and Dover Air Force Base

In this episode, I have the great pleasure of speaking with Les Carroll, Air Force and Air National Guard veteran, documentary filmmaker, author as well as novelist. Les reflects on his 28-year military career, his deployments to Afghanistan, and his powerful and humbling experience of serving at the Air Force Mortuary at Dover Air Force Base.

We also discuss his documentary Bringing the Fallen Home, his autobiographical book This Troubled Ground, and his latest novel, Last Day on the Blue Wonder, a story inspired by military courage, love, loss, mental health challenges, and the healing power of storytelling. This is a moving conversation about service, memory, sacrifice, writing, and the importance of honoring the people and families behind every headline and beyond partisanship and political agendas.