Why You Shouldn’t Say Afghanistan Meant Nothing

Mandy McElroy
4 min readAug 20, 2021
Image from Task and Purpose. Words from a Marine friend.

Because these are direct quotes from Marines I personally know. This is just the first.

Several days ago a Medium writer, a veteran herself who had deployed to Afghanistan twice, wrote an article entitled “ Afghanistan Meant Nothing” I couldn’t take issue with much of what she said.

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Mandy McElroy

Divorced for 2 years, after leaving a 40 year marriage. An adult daughter removed herself and her children from my life due to my decision. The pain remains.