War STOrieS
DUTY BOUND
Writer and combat veteran Brian Castner on war and the life that follows.
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Brian Castner is a journalist and war memoirist, a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) officer and military contractor who served as a bomb squad commander in Iraq on two of his three combat tours. He’s the author of the critically acclaimed The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, which examines his experiences in war alongside the challenges of coming home and being a “normal” husband and father. He also wrote All the Ways We Kill and Die: An Elegy for a Fallen Comrade, and the Hunt for His Killer, about his friend and fellow EOD technician, Matt Schwartz. Castner visited Anchorage and Juneau in March as part of the Alaska Humanities