Elliot Ackerman is part of a new generation of American veteran novelists, short-story writers and poets whose experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan shape their work. Ron Capps, who founded the Veterans Writing Project in Washington, D.C., in 2011, considers creative writing as a vital way of “communalizing” wartime experiences. “The people who send a soldier to war have a responsibility to know what was done in their name, and a soldier has a responsibility to bring back the report of what happened to him and, in a way,...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 15, 2017 12:00 UTC