First, I’d like to thank Leilani for inviting me to this fantastic event. My understanding of the project was that a small group of veteran writers would gather under Leilani’s direction to write a ten-minute, one-act stageplay based on letters written by American service members since the Civil War. As a lover of military history and theater, I was highly intrigued. The indicator of serendipity was when I learned that the letters I would be working with were from a World War I ambulance driver who saw carnage in the Argonne Forest, one of the most brutal conflicts Americans faced in that war.