Veterans Reflect on the Boy Inside Them That Died on the Battlefield

MESA, Ariz.—”You can never go home again” rings true for combat veterans, especially the part of them that can never forget. People have called war many things—cruel and tragic, the final court of appeals, a racket, and the most noble thing people can do for their country. It depends on how you look at it. Lysander Caligo, 39, a former U.S. Marine from Mesa, Arizona, saw the beauty and ugliness of the battlefield in Afghanistan in the early 2000s. He was a counterintelligence specialist with the Third Battalion, Seventh Marines, and he hunted high-value targets for eight months before his discharge....