St Tammany Parish Jail bookings May 23 2018 1020 am May 14 PRECIOUS THOMPSON 28 1758 Sullivan Road Slidell possession with intent to distribute Schedule II 400 grams or more of cocaine transactions involving proceeds from drug offenses illegal use of controlled dangerous substance in presence of persons under seventeen years of age possession with intent to distribute to Schedule I controlled dangerous substance possession of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoids sale distribute or possession of legend drug without a prescription possession of drug paraphernalia possession of stolen firearm or carrying concealed weapon WILLIAM DELATOUR 18 108 Pineridge St Mandeville contempt of court taking contraband to and from a penal institution possession of drug paraphernalia JAIRUS CROCKETT 22 23155 Delery St Mandeville possession of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoids illegal use of controlled dangerous substance in presence of persons under seventeen years of age improper turn possession of drug paraphernalia improper lane use possession of Schedule IV possession of Schedule II controlled dangerous substance attempted MEREDITH BOEHM 45 220 Bellingrath Place Madisonville drug court sanction CHARLES COPELAND 40 20376 Gleber Drive Loranger unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling DWAYNE BAGENT 21 46037 Rufus Bankston Road Hammond two counts of distribute or possession with intent to distribute Schedule I controlled dangerous substance possession of Schedule II possession of Schedule IV with intent to distribute aggravated second degree battery illegal use of weapons possession with intent to distribute Schedule II controlled dangerous substance DARWIN CARRANZAMEJIA 32 1039 3rd St Kenner housed for immigration ERICK REYESMURILLO 31 182 Lilly Lane Biloxi Mississippi housed for immigration SAM FUENTESRAMIREZ 36 4500 Bell St Metairie housed for immigration ABDELRAHMAN ALADWAN 32 737 Gladstone Drive Gretna housed for immigration MAURICIO ARRUE 41 775 Ruth St Avondale housed for immigration JUAN LOPEZFIERRO 38 233 Johnson St St Rose housed for immigration JESUS MURILLOOCHOA 33 1010 East Whatley Road Oakdale housed for immigration JOSE TORRECITAS 48 4227 Hudson St Metairie housed for immigration MOIS VASQUEZRIVERA 43 3548 Caminada Drive Marrero housed for immigration EDGAR VASQUEZHERRERA 22 3548 Caminada Drive Marrero housed for immigration LEON REYESDEONICIO 24 100 Alford Drive Slidell housed for immigration KENDELL CLARK 32 20162 Arthur Road Covington DWI first offense improper lane use CIERRA ACKER 23 1110 Brownswitch Road Slidell probation violation KARIM AGEE 42 350 West Herman St Pensacola Florida bank fraud forgery monetary instrument abuse HECTOR MURILLO 52 1103 Colbert St Mandeville distributing the peace by appearing in an intoxicated condition TYSHEEN KELLY 21 112 North Ruland St Hammond housed for court JONATHAN TEMPLE 34 130 West Oak St Amite housed for court contempt of court LAVELL BERNARD 32 500 Phoenix Square Hammond two counts of possession of Schedule II possession of a firearm by convicted felon PATRICK THOMAS 62 12539 Roseland Ave Roseland aggravated burglary KOREY EFFERSON 28 38237 La 16 Franklinton possession of firearm or carrying concealed weapon ALEXANDRIA BROWN 26 623 Sullivan Drive Bogalusa housed for court contempt of court WILLIAM SECRIST 26 38304 Tycer Varnado Road Franklinton housed for court RANDY LAIL 36 410 Rustling Pine Drive Slidell racketeering two counts of attempt and conspiracy ALEXANDER CATE 28 18257 Shaw Road Saucier Mississippi probation violation BRANDON BALEN 29 1647 America St Mandeville probation violation JEREMY CORTEZ 44 219 Tasmania Court Slidell second degree battery MARCO PERKINS 30 4722 Pontchartrain Drive Slidell domestic abuse batterystrangulation CIERRIA BROCK 25 307 Wallace Drive New Orleans two counts of fugitive TIMOTHY POLK 30 73141 La 41 Pearl River resisting an officer ROBERT GARNER 43 144 North Meyers Drive Covington domestic abuse batterystrangulation probation violation David Evans 23 22 Dove Ridge Road Carriere Mississippi contempt of court Jessica Quates 29 116 John Drive Slidell contempt of court fugitive two counts of surrender of defendantbondsman off bond Brandon Sandrock 36 79286 La 41 Bush contempt of court distribute or possession with intent to distribute Schedule I controlled dangerous substance illegal carrying of weapons possession of drug paraphernalia surrender of defendantbondsman off bond Taylor Hughes 25 20415 Military Heights Drive Covington domestic abuse battery Gero Cook 38 547 Main Avenue Slidell attempted simple burglary possession of drug paraphernalia Don Pannell 31 1500 Lorene Drive Harvey housed for marshal May 15 NATHANIEL THOMPSON 34 60385 Bryan Road Slidell contempt of court BRIAN WRIGHT 33 135 Tulip Drive Slidell probation violation CHRISTOPHER NANCE 47 40186 HWY 16 Franklinton careless operation DWI fourthsubsequent offense JEREMY MEYN 32 13047 North Pierce Bogalusa probation violation CHRISTOPHER COOKE 36 119 Belle Terre Blvd Covington DWI first offense improper lane use no proof of insurance driving under suspension possession of Schedule I controlled dangerous substance DEJA FERNANDEZ 20 406 West Stevens Circle Gulfport Mississippi contempt of court surrender of defendantbondsman off bond LESLIE KEEFFE 37 216 Tallwood Drive Slidell parole violation GABRIELLE MELERINE 20 1556 Savannah Drive Slidell probation violation CALVIN LESLEY 30 403 Heifer Run Pearl River two counts of contempt of court failure to return or leased motor vehicles SAMUEL MICHEL 49 3404 East Main St Lacombe contempt of court WALTER FISHER 44 61534 North 8th Street Slidell contempt of court KEVIN FRAZIER 55 4349 Canal St Slidell aggravated battery COLIN FITZPATRICK 31 91935 Ester Brook Road Ponchatoula telephone communications improper language harassment TAMMY WEST 48 103 Rabbit Run Pearl River unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling disturbing the peace resisting an officer BRIANNA TURNER 22 70419 11th St Covington violation of protection order MIRANDA LAURICELLA 37 12033 East Evans Road Independence contempt of court TRACEY MCKEVITT 35 1821 Jefferson St Mandeville two counts of distribute or possession with intent to distribute Schedule I controlled dangerous substance JACOB GRAF 18 725 Navajo Drive Abita Springs theft misdemeanor TIMOTHY KERLEE 30 57447 Maple Ave Slidell domestic abuse battery simple battery May 16 BILLY PADDIO 40 1200 Main St Madisonville contempt of court JACOB SALCEDO 26 201 Exnicios Drive Folsom DWI fourthsubsequent offense maximum speed limit improper lane use following too close interlock device required simple obstruction of highway of commerce ARTHUR LERMA 47 7026 Stonewall Ridge Richmond Texas possession of firearm or carrying concealed weapon possession of Schedule I MARTINA LERMA 47 2614 3rd St Rosenberg Texas possession of Schedule II APRIL HODGES 31 1200 Eagle Lake Slidell possession of Schedule II BRANDI HENDERSON 36 124 Oak Manor Drive Slidell drug court sanction BENJAMIN GORRINGE 17 73304 La 437 Covington underage DWI establishing speed zones open container in motor vehicle no inspection sticker no proof of insurance reckless operation of motor vehicle unlawful purchase of alcoholic beverages by person BRIAN BENTSCHNEIDER 20 36 Waterway Drive Spring Lake North Carolina fugitive DUJUAN JOHNSON 36 62075 North 12th St Slidell housed for court BRITTANY DENNIS 28 2325 Maine Ave Kenner probation violation failure to honor written promise to appear KEVIN QUILLEN 36 21321 Kux Road Long Beach Mississippi probation violation Roland Cooper 60 110 Roger Storme Road Madisonville offender to notify change of address residence or other KATHRYN ALLEN 59 740 Heavens Drive Mandeville contempt of court EDRIC COOPER 30 1569 Hunters Point Slidell domestic abuse battery pregnant victim JEREMY FROWNER 18 1332 Forestwood Drive Slidell simple burglary DONALD CROWDER 46 404 Colonial Court Mandeville domestic abuse battery second offense JEFFREY MCKEE 28 110 North Kings Court Slidell battery of a dating partner BOBBIE PORTER 28 17326 East Cooper Road Loranger contempt of court failure to honor written promise to appear COURTNEY MCMAHON 38 18200 Derbes Drive Covington theft under 1000 BRITTANY SAIZAN 31 24315 Ridgdell Road Ponchatoula theft misdemeanor possession of Schedule I KESHA LEMOINE 41 61294 Slidell Ave Slidell surrender of defendantbondsman off bond May 17 ROSS GIARDINA 39 226 Coin Du Lestin Drive Slidell drug court sanction JEFFERY WAINWRIGHT 33 72030 Kustenmacher Road Abita Springs drug court sanction JENNIFER MCCORMICK 42 1527 Richmond Drive Slidell drug court sanction BREDY PACHECOREYES 27 4254 5th Ave Lake Charles housed for immigration KENIA MILLABLANCO 27 3400 Kent Ave Metairie housed for immigration EMER LERMAALANIS 34 10436 North Harvey Drive Baton Rouge housed for immigration JOSEPH AUSTIN 28 PO Box 364 Springfield housed for court JASON MIGLIORE 45 42270 HWY 190 Slidell failure to use turn signal distribute or possession with intent to distribute Schedule II controlled dangerous substance over 28 grams possession with intent to distribute Schedule II controlled dangerous substance possession with intent to distribute Schedule I controlled dangerous substance sale distribute or possession of legend drug without a prescription possession of drug paraphernalia ALLEN HENRY 31 1212 Plum Street Bogalusa housed for court JOANN BENNETT 62 67490 Slaughter Road Hickory possession of Schedule II improper lane use JAMES CLARK 37 72525 Violet St Covington negligent in injury illegal possession of stolen firearms possession of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoids possession of firearm or carrying concealed weapon aggravated flight from officer driving under suspension two counts of surrender of defendantbondsman off bond RICKELL GORDON 26 72141 East 2nd St Covington contempt of court possession of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoids illegal possession of stolen firearms VICKARIOUS BEDFORD 22 21256 Dogwood St Covington possession of 200 grams but less than 400 grams of cocaine obstruction of justice transactions involving proceeds from drug offenses possession of drug paraphernalia RION BATTISTELLA 52 253 Cherokee Rose Lane Covington distribute or possession with intent to distribute Schedule I controlled dangerous substance possession of drug paraphernalia RONALD FARMER 41 29086 Old Columbia Road Angie contempt of court HEATHER LACROSSEKELLY 28 28399 Palmer Drive Lacombe contempt of court theft misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency possession of Schedule I possession of Schedule IV TIMOTHY MCVEY 31 3 Honeysuckle Lane Covington DWI first offense possession of Schedule IV JAMES JACKSON 34 46037 Rufus Bankston Hammond housed for marshal JERRY PEA 42 121 Center St Hammond contempt of court housed for marshal May 18 MICHAEL DAIGLE 34 115 Eva Lane Golden Meadow possession of Schedule II fugitive DALE HUFFMAN 25 13107 Blackwell Lane Folsom contempt of court ADONIS YOUNG 26 248 Goldenwood Drive Slidell second degree battery KIMBERLY STRIKMILLER 35 300 Weldon Park Drive Mandeville drug court sanction SCOTT GUILLORY 29 Ochsner Drive Covington contempt of court LANCE HOWARD 30 54 Piper Lane Mandeville failure to honor written promise to appear KELLI BURBACH 36 317 Mourning Dove Lane Madisonville prohibited sexual conduct educatorstudent BYRON CHINCHILLA 37 18302 Pellegrin Drive Covington DWI second offense improper lane use driver must be licensed CAMERON BLAKE 19 22355 Ray Keen Road Covington DWI first offense improper lane use use of certain wireless telecom devices for texting WILLIAM MCCORMICK 45 712 Foy St Mandeville domestic abuse battery BENJAMIN SOSSAMAN 43 417 Kostmayer Ave Slidell probation violation DERRICK MCDADE 39 619 Hailey Ave Slidell indecent behavior with a juvenile REGINA TRAVASOS 40 65067 Ann Street Pearl River possession of drug paraphernalia possession of Schedule I controlled dangerous substance ERIN LOTT 36 820 Lindh Road Gulfport Mississippi proper equipment required on vehicles display of plates driving under suspension possession of drug paraphernalia possession of Schedule I controlled dangerous substance STUART EDMONDSON 35 1011 Paige Court Slidell possession of Schedule I controlled dangerous substance possession of drug paraphernalia CHRISTOPHER HAYES 30 506 North Marien Street Olathe Kentucky computer aided solicitation for sexual purposes indecent behavior with a juvenile indecent behavior with a juvenile involving pornography JEFFERY WALLACE 36 406 West Lake Slidell unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling violation of protection order CHRISTINE DRAGON 45 217 Chess Drive Slidell parole violation JOHNNIE APPLEWHITE 40 2011 Churchill St Slidell two counts of possession of Schedule II possession of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoids possession of drug paraphernalia ANNA HOLLEY 28 35184 East Moran Road Pearl River unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling XAVIER OKORONKWO 22 5123 Tavre St New Orleans fugitive MICHAEL SINGER 34 214 Maplewood Drive Slidell possession of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoids possession of drug paraphernalia possession with intent to distribute Schedule III anabolic steroids possession with intent to distribute Schedule III distribution of Schedule III controlled dangerous substance possession of firearm by convicted felon illegal use of controlled dangerous substance in presence of persons under seventeen years of age PATRICK MCTAGUE 30 76106 Lazy R Road Covington domestic abuse battery May 19 JARED HOLLINS 29 26339 Dove St Ponchatoula taking contraband to and from a penal institution failure to honor written promise to appear ERICA COLLINS 25 1402 North Causeway Blvd Mandeville drug court sanction CODY DOWNS 23 2202 Summertree Drive Slidell drug court sanction CARLITA SMITH 36 21280 Gardina Street Covington two counts of contempt of court CHAD SIMONEAUX 20 41248 Firetower Road Ponchatoula DUS while under suspension for certain prior offenses driving across median BRENNAN FREEMAN 22 82506 Five lakes Road bush operating a vehicle while intoxicated careless operation COBEY JORDAN 20 9028 Morrison Road New Orleans possession of marijuana or synthetic cannabinoids establishing speed zones expired drivers license false MVI BRANDI GOLDMAN 24 7075 Hwy 84 Frisco City Alabama operating a vehicle while intoxicated establishing speed zones improper lane use LORETTA ROUBION 31 60156 Camp Villere Road Slidell possession of Schedule IV controlled dangerous substance possession of drug paraphernalia ASHLEY MACKIN 31 105 Kempsey Court Slidell attempted theft possession of Schedule IV controlled dangerous substance taking contraband to and from a penal institution and unauthorized use of motor moveable KEVIN DYE 54 9409 Travis Ave Ocean Springs Mississippi disturbing the peace bank fraud NORMAN SHEPHARD 35 101 Village Drive Slidell misuse of 911 ROY TAYLOR 36 Cumas Lane Covington contempt of court two counts of failure to honor written promise to appear HUEY JENKINS 29 17299 Hunt Road Covington possession of Schedule I possession of drug paraphernalia BRENT BAUMGARTNER 38 322 Napoleon Ave New Orleans possession of Schedule III controlled dangerous substance possession of drug paraphernalia illegal use of controlled dangerous substance in presence of persons under seventeen years of age RACQUEAL SMITH 34 207 Hollow Rock Court Slidell possession of Schedule IV issuing worthless checks MICAH BROWN 18 84044 Neal Cemetery Road Folsom two counts of possession of Schedule I possession of Schedule II possession of Schedule IV possession of drug paraphernalia driving too fast for conditions ALAN BLOSSMAN 32 227 Old Landing Road Covington simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling simple damage to property May 20 EMILE KALIL 28 9 Hunter Pierce Lane Hattiesburg Mississippi DWI first offense no proof of insurance improper turn following too close expired license plate careless operation driving under suspension establishing speed zones SIMON LERMAALANIZ 36 225 Ship Drive 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LineageOS 16 Release date and device list OnePlus 33T55T Galaxy S7S7 Edge Mi 5 Redmi 4 etc added At the very dawn of the Android OS a group of developers wanted to get more out of their mobile devices than they were capable of Cyanogen along with a band of enthusiastic contributors created CyanogenMod one of the most popular custom ROMs ever created for the Android OS While having a great run CyanogenMod is now no longer among us and the project was killed off after Cyanogen Inc went under But with enough support from the users and developers willing to do the hard work it has been rebooted as LineageOS Now we may soon see a new version of the ROM LineageOS 16 which will be based on Android 9 Pie Right now LineageOS 151 is available and is based on Android 81 Related When will my OnePlus device get Android 9 Pie When will Samsung launch the Android 9 Pie beta program Xiaomi Android 9 Pie release date and news Huawei Android 9 Pie device list Motorola device list for Android 9 Pie update Table of content LineageOS 16 device list and availability LineageOS 16 release date Will my device get LineageOS 16 Why LineageOS 16 Why not LineageOS 16 Project Treble compatible LineageOS 16 ROM LineageOS 16 device list and availability You can download the LineageOS 16 ROM for the devices given in the table below This device list will be updated as more and more ROMs become available Download Gapps from the source page if given otherwise simply hit up our Android 9 Pie Gapps download page given right below Download Android 9 Pie Gapps Note Be sure to read and follow the requirements if any mentioned at the source page You may need to install the latest version of TWRP recovery or any other file as may be mentioned on the source page linked above we have tried to highlights such stuff in the prerequisite section above too Device Download Link Source page More Asus ZenFone 2 Laser Z00LZ00T LineageOS 16 download Development forum Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1 X00TD LineageOS 16 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LineageOS 16 is expected to be the next big thing in the world of Android custom ROMs Taking a look at the timeline Android 80 Oreo was released back in August 2017 after the developer preview came out in March 2017 However the updated Android 81 update was rolled out much later in December 2017 starting with Google Pixel and Nexus devices In comparison it took LineageOS 151 which is a forked version of Android 81 Oreo around 85 days to be released Considering that Android Pie AOSP is now available beginning August 6 it could be several weeks before we hear about LineageOS 16 Even then the early versions would be restricted to a handful of devices like the OnePlus 6 OnePlus 5 and 5T or OnePlus 3 and 3T the Moto G sets etc but definitely not devices such as the Galaxy S9 Galaxy S8 Galaxy S7 Galaxy Note 9 Note 8 HTC U12 LG G7 etc that are tightly controlled by their OEMs So a stable release should be expected around December 2018 or in early 2019 but thanks to Project Treble we can still expect LineageOS 16 to arrive in earlytomid Q4 2018 You can also download the Android 9 update unofficially like the LineageOS 16 ROM if an Android 9 GSI system image linked above is compatible with your device See the GSI device list here Check the link above to see installation instructions Will my device get LineageOS 16 Golden rule If your device has LOS 151150 it will probably get LOS 160 too Samsung flagships arent getting much LineageOS love over past few years Stock UIfeaturing handsets like those of Motorola OnePlus Nokia etc stand great chance to be the first devices to run LineageOS 16 ROM Nexus Pixel and LG devices should get LOS 16 too It wouldnt be a fair comparison to make if we considered the device list of CyanogenMod to be equal to LineageOS At its prime CyanogenMod supported thousands of Android devices at the least while LineageOS has far fewer numbers While the official list of LineageOS 16 devices is not yet out you can expect all of the LineageOS 151 devices to be supported by default The list will only keep growing as more devices and Android OEMs join the party Nonetheless LineageOS 151 is already at an impressive total of more than 250 devices for over 20 different Android OEMs The list already covers popular devices from OnePlus Google Samsung Sony LG Xiaomi Huawei and Motorola among others Why LineageOS 16 For most of us who are looking over to custom ROMs for software support its because our Android OEM has left us high and dry LineageOS offers a chance of survival to older devices with decent hardware to still be worth the money we put into them when we first bought them Even for those who have relatively new devices from the likes of Xiaomi Huawei and Samsung the advent of a pure Android experience can be compelling Since LineageOS is meant to be a leanandmean version of Googles stock Android you get a crisp user interface with none of the unnecessary fluff of the MIUI ROM for instance A good example is the OnePlus One which is still kicking after three years of being out of software support Thanks to LineageOS 151 you can install Android 81 Oreo on the device right now More importantly since Android Pie AOSP is now available LineageOS might be the only way to get the software on an Android OEM device at the earliest Related Android 9 Pie features App actions Digital Wellbeing Why not LineageOS 16 While the advantages of this custom ROM far outweigh the disadvantages you still have to consider the repercussions In comparison to the massive support that CyanogenMod had LineageOS is not widely supported Fewer devices mean fewer supporters which affects everything from update support to software availability It is a relief that you can use services like Samsung KNOX and Android Pay with LineageOS since the custom ROM does not root your device by default However you still have to unlock the bootloader and install a custom recovery both of which will void the warranty of your Android device Are you excited for the release of LineageOS 16 with Android Pie this year or would you rather wait it out and enjoy the official stable release through your device manufacturer Share your thoughts in the comments section down below Related Android 9 Pie release dates Sony Android Pie release date Huawei Android 9 Pie device list Samsung Android Pie device list Project Treble compatible LineageOS 16 ROM A Treble based LineageOS 160 ROM is now available As on August 29 the ROM is available as a test build Which means that you cant rely on this ROM as a daily driver which to be fair is the case with nearly all the Android Pie ROMs including the Android 9 GSI ROM Date Development Page Notes 29 Aug 2018 Treble LineageOS 16 ROM ROM is without superuser at the moment Can download Gapps here The ROM is compatible with all the devices that support Project Treble device list here Tags Android 9 Android 9 Pie Android 90 Android Pie Android Pie release date LineageOS LineageOS 16 LineageOS 160 Pie Husain Sharing a 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Americans Want to Live in a Much More Equal Country They Just Dont Realize It We asked thousands of people to describe their ideal distribution of wealth from top to bottom The vast majority rich poor GOP and Democrat imagined a far more equal nation Heres why it matters Reuters The inequality of wealth and income in the US has become an increasingly prevalent issue in recent years One reason for this is that the visibility of this inequality has been increasing gradually for a long timeas society has become less segregated people can now see more clearly how much other people make and consume Owing to urban life and the media our proximity to one another has decreased making the disparity all too obvious In addition to this general trend the financial crisis with all of its fall out shined a spotlight on the salaries of bankers and financial It is relatively easy to think about inequality as being too great or too little in abstract terms but ask yourself how much you really know about wealth distribution in the US For example imagine that we took all Americans and sorted them by wealth along a line with the poorest on the left and continuing as wealth increases until on the right we have the richest Now imagine that we divide them into five buckets with an equal number of citizens in each The first bucket contains the poorest 20 of the population the next contains the second wealthiest With this in mind from the total pie of wealth 100 what percent do you think the bottom 40 that is the first two buckets together of Americans possess And what about the top 20 If you guessed around 9 for the bottom and 59 for the top youre pretty much in line with the average response we got when we asked this question of thousands of Americans The reality is quite different Based on Wolff 2010 the bottom 40 of the population combined has only 03 of wealth while the top 20 possesses 84 see Figure 2 These differences between levels of wealth in society comprise whats called the Gini coefficient which is one way to quantify inequality This is the level of wealth inequality that exists in America and it is clearly higher than people think but in Goldilocksesque fashion we can ask Is the real level of inequality too high too low or just right When economists consider the desirable level of inequality they usually define the ideal inequality from the perspective of economic efficiency What level of inequality will motivate people to be the most productive and move up the wealth ladder What level of inequality will allow those at the top to lift up society as a whole say by having the resources to This is one approach to assessing the desirability of wealth inequality but Mike Norton and I wanted to examine this question from a different perspectivethat of regular noneconomist peopleand we wanted to examine inequality in terms of its effect on society as a whole not just in terms of economic efficiency After all inequality is not just about economic efficiency Its also about our daytoday experience as citizens the influence of envy our social mobility the importance of equal opportunity our mutual dependency on each other etc But what does it mean to ask people what level of inequality they want And how do we get people to respond to such a question without being influenced by their current state of wealth After all wouldnt the rich want a higher degree of inequality and the poor want a more even distribution of wealth HOW MUCH INEQUALITY DO YOU WANT We took a step back and examined social inequality based on the definition that the philosopher John Rawls gave in his book A Theory of Justice In Rawls terms a society is just if a person understands all the conditions within that society and is willing to enter it in a random place in terms of socioeconomic status gender race and so on In terms of wealth that means that people know everything about the wealth distribution and are willing to enter that society anywhere along the spectrum They could be among the poorest or the richest or anywhere in between Rawls called this idea the veil of ignorance because the decision of whether to enter a particular society is disconnected from the particular knowledge that With this definition in mind we did two things First we asked 5522 people to create a distribution of wealth among the five buckets such that they themselves would be willing to enter that society at a random place Their answers could range from a perfectly even distribution with 20 of wealth in each quintile to a fully biased distribution with 100 of wealth in one and 0 in the rest We found that the ideal distribution described by this representative sample of Americans was dramatically more equal than exists anywhere in the world with 32 of wealth belonging to the wealthiest quintile down to 11 by the poorest see Figure 3 What was particularly surprising about the results was that when we examined the ideal distributions for Republicans and Democrats we found them to be quite similar see Figure 4 When we examined the results by other variables including income and gender we again found no appreciable differences It seems that Americans regardless of political affiliation income and gender want the kind of wealth distribution shown in Figure 3 which is very different from what we have and from what we think we have see Figure 2 We understood that setting up an ideal wealth distribution is a rather difficult proposition so in another task we made things simpler see Figure 5 and asked people to choose between two unidentified distributions again under the veil of ignorance The first option unbeknownst to participants reflected the distribution of wealth in America For the second option we modified the distribution found in Sweden making it substantially more equal we referred to this fictional nation as Equalden We discovered that 92 of Americans preferred the distribution of Equalden to Americas And if one were to assume that the 8 who preferred Americas distribution was made up of wealthy Republican men he or she would be mistaken The preference for Equalden was slightly different for Republicans and Democrats and in the expected direction but the magnitude was very small 935 of Democrats and 902 of Republicans preferred the more equal distribution While this 33 difference is substantial when we think about the economy of an entire country if we look at it from the perspective of the gap LEARNING FROM THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE There are a few lessons that we can learn from this The first is that we vastly underestimate the level of inequality that we have in America Our society is far more uneven in terms of wealth than we believe it is Second we want much more equality than both what we have and what we think we have Apparently when asked in a way that avoids hotbutton terms misconceptions and the level of wealth people currently possess Americans are actually in agreement about wanting a more equal distribution of wealth In fact the vast majority of Americans prefer a A third lesson concerns the political gap between Democrats and Republicans Given the extraordinarily polarized and derisive rhetoric flying back and forth between Democrats and Republicans one would think there was an insurmountable gap between their positions So how is it possible that we found so little difference between them in our study One reason for this could be our inability to separate our ideology from our current state of wealth Our interests tend to color our view both of how things are and how they should be Another reason could be politicians who in order to rally people to Rawls veil of ignorance deals with such superficial and irrelevant influences on what we think by prompting people to consider all possible socioeconomic situations rather than just their own and the interests and ideologies that come along with that The veil of ignorance accomplishes something similar to blind taste testing Take wine for instance If a person knows the appellation and price and realizes that French wine is usually preferable to Finnish his or her perception and opinion of how good each wine tastes will be influenced by these preconceived notions Similarly when we express opinions about politics and life As for what this means about changing the level of inequality which from our study seems almost unanimously objectionable there are essentially two paths education and taxation Improving education works in a sense to change the input into the economybettereducated workers are more resourceful and employable and can move up the economic ladder Changing taxation deals with the outputthose who prosper pay more into the system than those without the same benefits Our study doesnt tell us anything about which of these two approaches to reducing inequality would be preferable but in practical terms bridging the huge gap between what With all these objections in mind it still seems that the political discourse could benefit from a Rawlsian approach Taking this path could help us understand what it is that we really want and then allow us to consider ways to get there If our politicians also accepted this starting point they might argue less about ideology and differences and more about paths to get closer to our common goala much less extreme level of inequality Social justice and optimal wealth distribution are highly complex topics and its hard to imagine that any study could dramatically change opinions about education welfare or tax reform But consider this When we ran the same basic experiment in Australia we found Australians did not differ much from Americans in their views of the ideal distribution When we ran another version of it with NPR listeners and then readers of Forbes Magazine the results were still basically the same And most likely if you participated in one of our tests your response too would have fallen in line with these findings So whatever you think the current state of wealth distribution is and whatever you believe the ideal level of wealth distribution to be under the veil of ignorance there probably is a gap and a large one between the two Awareness of the disparity between what we have and what we want implies that ultimately we as a society need to face the problem and find a solution Wolff E N 2010 Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United StatesRising Debt and the MiddleClass Squeezean Update to 2007 Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Norton MI and Ariely D 2011 Building a Better AmericaOne Wealth Quintile at a Time Perspectives on Psychological Science 6 9 912 Rawls John 1999 A Theory of Justice Cambridge Mass Belknap Press of Harvard University Press We want to hear what you think about this article to the editor or write to letterstheatlanticcom Dan Ariely is a bestselling author and the James B Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University His latest book is The Honest Truth About Dishonesty

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What My School Means to Me Essays from 3 High Schoolers The South Carolina Governors School for the Arts and Humanities James Fallows In January I visited the South Carolina Governors School for the Arts and Humanities a public residential high school in Greenville Artistically talented students from around the state spend two or three of their high school years in dedicated pursuit of their artdance drama music visual arts or creative writingalong with their academic curriculum I wrote about it Reinvention and resilience across the nation I asked Scott Gould a creative writing teacher at the school if he would ask his students to write me a short essay about their school This was a wideopen request I wanted to hear whatever perspective the students wanted to offer about their experience at the school Among the essays the students submitted here are three of my favorites unedited and untouched Id like to share them with you The first is by Cameron Messinides a junior from Camden SC LongDistance My mother called on Sunday to tell me our herd of goats previously twentyone strong had been reduced to three Two feral dogs squeezed through a hole in the pasture fence and killed anything they could catch My parents and brother arrived during the massacre My father jumped the fence to chase the dogs and shot the slower one with a pistol On his way back he heard a few scattered bleats and followed the sounds In a gully he found two billies and the last nanny They had survived by shoving themselves into an abandoned chicken coop Afterwards my family walked among the carcassesonce white now bloodstained and caked with rainsoftened clay We wanted to find life my mother said They gave up at four in the afternoon and my father and brother made a pile of the bodies in the woods to be buried later Phone calls like this are common now Ive been in a boarding school since August and every weekend my mother seems to find something new to break to me Its not always bad The weekend before she called to tell me my brother enrolled in a birding retreat on the South Carolina coastline And before that she told me about the new color she picked for the living room walls Im still not used to this kind of communication I miss immediacy A year ago when I still lived with them I would know all this She wouldnt have to The Wednesday after the goats died she called again She told me she couldnt shake what she had seen She worried Would the dogs owner show up How about the surviving dog What if he came back She hadnt been sleeping and when she did she dreamt of the bloody bodies the torn sides of a billy the kids crushed into the mud I told her I knew how she felt but I dont I dont think its possible She sent me only one picture of the scene a closeup of the surviving nannys nose ripped open by the dogs teeth The rest I have to imagine I imagine the dogsBrown Blackchasing the herd across a winter field hooves and paws tearing up dead grass I imagine stumbling kids I imagine the deputy who arrived a few hours later grayhaired and perhaps a slow talker None of it is certain I still sleep easily Thats the cost of our separation her anxieties dont But I want to care Some days I only want to be home in the ranchstyle with green siding and the stump in the front yard which is the only remnant of the rotting oak my family cut down without me Id walk to the pasture with my father take the shovel he offers me and dig with him shouldertoshoulder a hole big enough to put all eighteen dead goats under three or four feet of orange clay Then we return home and I sit in the living room next to my mother tell her she can sleep now Even Next by Shelley Hucks a senior from Florence SC Florentine In the heart of South Carolina the railroad tracks converge over swampland and fields are laced with cotton in the Dog Days of early August The summer heat rolls in unstoppable and rests between cypress knees and Spanish moss The place cant decide what to be its onethird urban onethird rural and onethird swamp The people seem to fall victim to a cycle of poverty of being at sixteen what their parents were at eighteen what their own children will be at fourteen Its not easy to get out The place is called Florence and I lived there for sixteen In upstate South Carolina is the Governors School for the Arts and Humanities Its situated just off Greenvilles downtown area with Reedy River Falls Park in the schools backyard Downtown Greenville is an arts community with performing centers and theaters galleries art festivals and craft fairs and restaurants willing to provide venues for writing club readings or jazz band performances Not only is the atmosphere different but the entire landscape from my dorm room I can see the hazy silhouette of mountains At the Governors School Ive studied under excellent teachers Ive been exposed to new authors and genres learned to be curious analytical to believe in the deliberation of every line of poetry and each line of dialogue in a short story Ive learned to put my personal life into artistic context with the help of professionals Ive learned to become aware To make something strange beautiful something important And something particularly valuable to me because of my immense pride in my hometown Ive learned to appreciate a strong sense of setting the way characters can function in so many complex Governors School has provided me with the training to write about the content that I grew up with the material I naturally have to offer Every story I write takes place in some type of Florence with its tangible sensation of heat trapped in the swamp the perpetual presence of desperation All of my characters are based on Florentines single mothers Ive met at work the mysterious neighbor who passed out alreadyopened Halloween candy or the woman who showed up to church drinking hairspray Going home on breaks or for the summer has altered my perspective of Florence Instead of seeing tragic figures living in a neverchanging place I see characters full of complexities living in a place as undecided as they are Once the chainlink fence covered in hubcaps was ugly But now I see it as armor protecting the women on the porch who sip sweet tea and watch another fistfight unfold in the street those men who wordlessly understand the ritual required to live here Finally by Jackson Trice a senior from Simpsonville SC Outside the Lines I forget how strange my school sounds to the rest of the world until I leave it On a card at the front desk inside a college admissions building I am told to write the name of my high school The full name South Carolina Governors School for the Arts and Humanities does not fit on the dotted line and I have to draw an arrow to the back of the card and write the rest there When I say my schools name out loud to family members it sounds prestigious almost regal But on the first day of school I dont know how much Governors School has changed me until I meet up with friends from my old school at a football game during fall break I live in Simpsonville South Carolina only a fifteen minute drive from downtown Greenville Still all these kids know about my school are rumors Ive heard the dancers are super catty one says Ive heard theres like crazy amounts of sex I answer Sometimes and Thats a good joke respectively I try to explain to them that yes I have real school work on top of art work No I cant have a boy in my dorm roomI cant even have Advil Hey hey there are a few republicans Like two maybe I quickly realize that the magic of this school is lost as soon as I try and pin words to it I stop coming home for Friday night football games I choose instead to stay on campus There are two creative writing classrooms that make up our department Each is packed with books and long desks and computers Only creative writers are allowed in these rooms and theres a giddiness in the seclusion of it Monday through Thursday we stay in the rooms after hours to get work done but on Fridays we kick our shoes off and run around to celebrate the weekend We lay on the desks and talk to each other and laugh until our sides ache We share secrets and stories and we belong to these rooms to the spines of our favorite There are of course the nights when AP Chemistry keeps me up until four in the morning There are the days where workshop is brutal and I never want to write another word again There are those scary moments where I feel that the pressure is too much and I fantasize about going to regular school Maybe then I could learn to drive go to real high school parties eat my mothers delicious food anytime I wanted But then theres a drama student playing guitar in the academic stairwell The sound of his voice spins up the flights of stairs bouncing off walls in wistful echoes It calms me Theres hot chocolate at the Starbucks across the street and theres the beauty of that street which is lined with small trees dressed up in white Christmas lights illuminating the sidewalk Theres my friend who sits with me inside Starbucks and talks about Rilke and Miley Cyrus with equal insight and tenacity When I return theres a group of students outside the residential life building blocking the doors We want to hear what you think about this article to the editor or write to letterstheatlanticcom Deborah Fallows is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and the author of Dreaming in Chinese

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High School History Doesnt Have to Be Boring Its not news that for over 100 years history has been taught as little more than a callous exercise in regurgitation and rote memorization with teachers rewarding how much information students can cram into their already stuffed heads But as we go farther into the 21st century with changes almost too numerous to fathom I find it mindboggling that any teacher would still treat history class as boring preparation for a quiz show This is no way to make learning about the past relevant and engaging It really never was For deeper insight I recently reached out to renowned history teacher Bruce Lesh whose long list of accomplishments includes cofounding the Center for History Education at the University of Maryland Baltimore County serving as a vicechair for the National Council for History Education and being recognized as the 2008 precollegiate Teacher of the Year by the Organization of American Historians At Franklin High School in Reisterstown Maryland Lesh champions historical inquiry and the way historians themselves study history This approach deemphasizes memorizing mountains of data Its lecture textbook and coverage Lesh tells me characterizing the current state of history instruction I think there are islands of innovation and people who are seeing history as a discipline with a particular body of literacy skills and thinking skills embedded in it But I think the vast majority say copy this down fill in the blankthat sort of thing In Leshs book Why Wont You Just Tell Us the Answer Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 712 he offers an array of lessons and case studies like how to introduce historical thinking through Nat Turners Rebellion chronological thinking and causality through the Railroad Strike of 1877 and historical empathy through the TrumanMacArthur Debate Throughout Lesh places a premium not on ones ability to recall cold facts which most will eventually forget anyway but on whether students can read critically reference appropriate sources and support an argument with evidence Im not preparing you to go work in the archives Lesh says noting that in his 21 years in the classroom hes taught only one student who went on to earn a PhD in history Im preparing you to make a presentation to a client as to why your proposal to build their building is the best one My job is to teach you how to make arguments Arguments are based on the application of evidence and evidence is gained through analysis of information Thats what we do We look at historical problems We build arguments about the questions that More than most others Leshs work has urged me to reexamine how I teach history In seven years on the job most recently also as a Teacher of the Future for the National Association of Independent Schools Ive often revisited how I approach three of my biggest concerns Teachers are foolish to expect students to remember anything for long that has little to no direct relevance in their daily lives Teachers need to do a much better job of connecting history to today and placing a greater emphasis on how young people could learn from past mistakes Teachers should assess students on what they can do with what they know rather than how much they know at any given time In American history I start each unit by making obvious the connections to today In my experience nothing grabs student interest like pointing out not only human folly but also how to varying degrees history repeats itself For instance before teaching about European conquistadores like Hernán Cortés who in the early 1500s conquered Mexico and the Aztec Empire for riches and glory I play my favorite scene from the 1987 film Wall Street where Gordon Gekko an inside trader played by Michael Douglas delivers his iconic greed is good monologue I then assign students to investigate Americas recent financial troubles and the role greed played in causing the recession Next year I plan to show scenes from The Wolf of Wall Street From there on I have most students hooked They want to learn more about Cortés and why and how he went to such lengths And because students want to learn they care about retaining and building upon their understanding When teaching the early American republic I have my students examine landmark Supreme Court rulings including McCulloch v Maryland which affirmed the supremacy of the national government over the states At the same time I cultivate a deeper more accessible understanding of federalism by covering the topic as it exists today Students consider how Californias more relaxed marijuana policy stands in contrast to stricter federal laws I also introduce students to the No Child Left Behind Act so that they can decide what role if any Washington should play in education Two years ago of their own volition several of my United States government students put their knowledge and opinions to good use while learning about blogging They launched a website titled Making a Difference Give a HOOT about Learning The project consisted of only a few posts but human beings learn best through sharing ideas and knowledge whereby the learning also becomes deep and lasting I had sharing in mind again this year when my European history students learned about the millions of lives lost in the Belgian Congo under King Leopold II In class upon discussing similar atrocities in more recent historyand a long list of horrors that still haunt our world todaystudents wanted to make a difference To do that they created websites dedicated to raising awareness of crimes against humanity By researching and voicing how to stop violence in Darfur Uganda Syria and Venezuela students took ownership of the learningand they didnt learn for the mere sake of learning They produced something I treat the subject of history as a conduit to teach important modern competencies like writing critical thinking reasoning and technology skills This makes the content more relatable useful and engaging I allow and encourage students to retake assessments I dont penalize failure or missed deadlines severely The end goal is mastery and Im not nearly as concerned about when an individual masters a conceptjust that it is in fact mastered My students know that and it encourages them to keep on trying to reach their fullest potential To make history even more accessible every Wednesday I dedicate most of class to discussing current events I find it worrisome when students can explain the finer points of lesserknown historical events like the Teapot Dome scandal but then have little clue about major world events happening in the present To address that deficit I assign weekly news articles for students to discuss in class For instance my students apply their knowledge of Brown v Board of Education and the 1960s civil rights period to inform their views on affirmative actionparticularly as the policy relates to college admissions practices When it comes down to what the best history teachers do and how they can really help students succeed in the world of tomorrow Lesh puts it best I always tell students my job is to help them convince their parents that when they came in late after curfew they shouldnt get in trouble To do that you have to make a logical thoughtful argument that uses evidence and examples We want to hear what you think about this article to the editor or write to letterstheatlanticcom David Cutler teaches history and journalism at Brimmer and May in Chestnut Hill Massachusetts He writes regularly about education at SpinEdu

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The Dodgers Aim for Historyand a Championship The Dodgers celebrate an 11thinning win against the San Francisco Giants in July Mark J Terrill AP On the afternoon of July 31 Major League Baseballs trade deadline the Los Angeles Dodgers acquired Yu Darvish the best pitcher on the market from the Texas Rangers Four days later Darvish debuted in his new teams gray and blue road uniforms lasering fastballs and looping curves for seven shutout innings The Dodgers beat the New York Mets 60 improving the best record in baseball this season to 77 wins against 32 losses Said the catcher Yasmani Grandal of Darvish after the game Its hard to say you can get any better than he was tonight Grandals sentiment was accurate but hardly specific the same could be said of most of the players on the Dodgerss roster most nights and of the team as a whole The 2017 Dodgers have been remarkable in every facet of the game by any metric They have scored the fifthmost runs in the Majors and allowed the fewest They hit homers and doubles and play lockstep defense behind a pitching staff stuffed with aces During one recent 50game stretch they won a recordtying 43 times in every fashion imaginable piecemeal comebacks walkoff home runs wiretowire blowouts Dominant teams usually present a dilemma to fans who enjoy the displays but wish for tight pennant races But even though they are 15 games clear of the pack in their own division and all but guaranteed a playoff spot already the Dodgerss regular season still has plenty of intrigue left supplied by history instead of opponents If it maintains its recent pace the team could break the alltime mark for wins in a season set at 116 by the 1906 Chicago Cubs and matched almost a century later by the 2001 Seattle Mariners Despite those gaudy aims and a quarterbilliondollar payroll that ranks as the highest in baseball there is a likable aspect to the roster an almost quaint adherence to the ideal of the wellrounded team The Dodgers have their superstars of courseDarvish joins Clayton Kershaw the franchises icon and the decades best pitcher and the shortstop wunderkind Corey Seager as names even casual followers of the game will recognizebut their role players and fillins have contributed just as much to the trailblazing season When Adrian Gonzalez the entrenched AllStar first baseman left the team in June with a back injury the rookie Cody Bellinger stepped in and soon found himself near the top of The Dodgerss manager Dave Robertsthe reigning manager of the year befitting this superlative teammaintains calm It is history in the making Roberts acknowledged recently But when you get back to the daytoday I dont think anyone is really thinking about that His players might not be getting caught up in the hype but the rest of the sports world is The Dodgers have accomplished what the NBAs Golden State Warriors did two seasons ago when they broke their sports regularseason record of 72 wins turned the sometimesdull formality of playing out the schedule into an event in and of itself Every day brings new stories about LAs chances of reaching the historic mark and the traditionally stodgy baseball media have adopted an industrywide attitude of outright awe A recent ESPNcom headline Why We Should All Root for an AstrosDodgers World Series summarized the perspective of fans and journalists alike This Los Angeles team is a movie nobody wants to end Monumental regular seasons do not necessarily lead to championships Neither of the 116win teams won the World Series and over the past decade the team with the best record has claimed the title only four times All of the statistical sensemaking of the 162game baseball schedule disappears in the short series of the playoffs where hot streaks have outsized effect and longterm steadiness doesnt count for much The Dodgers have their own recent history of failure to contend with too They have reached the playoffs in each of the past four years without advancing to the Series their last championship The Dodgerss ultimate hope then is that this years assemblage of talent is good enough to overcome the flukiness inherent to the postseason They aim to be not only favored but also foolproof to have enough fallback options and contingency plans to answer any bit of bad luck with some squirreledaway parcel of virtuosity The comparisons to the Warriors are doubleedged that recordbreaking Golden State team ended up losing in the NBA Finals So while the Dodgers are surely happy to put on a show for the remaining month and a half of the regular seasonand baseball fans are thrilled We want to hear what you think about this article to the editor or write to letterstheatlanticcom Robert OConnell is a writer based in Minneapolis His work has appeared in The Guardian Esquire and Vice Sports

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The Wars Keep Returning Jeff Haynes Reuters Ive been home from the wars for over three years now after seven years of tours in Iraq and Afghanistan primarily as a State Department political advisor to the Marines Yet the wars keeps returning News of yet another suicide came to me last month This time it was someone I knew who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan Ivy League educated and one of the quiet effective ones Yes one of our best who spent years in Iraq I was not close to him but we were in the same group that hung out together His suicide follows others of people I served with One friend killed himself in Afghanistan following a bad phone call from home a little over a year ago Another killed himself in Iraqs Anbar province a few years before that The Department of Veterans Affairs has estimated that in 2014 an average of 20 veterans committed suicide every day But this latest acquaintance to die by his own hand had been a civilian government employee Military or civilian the only people I know personally who have committed suicide have served in combat zones And there are too many I am trying to grapple with these deaths In Iraq and Afghanistan one gets used to violent deaths We are set up for it We have ramp ceremonies where a thousand people might stand at attention while the coffins are brought into the plane for the final ride home There are memorial services held at the base or at the embassy There are just tiny paid obituaries for those who served and then took their own lives years later and thousands of miles away Yet he was a casualty of the war as well A friend writes In the past few months he had not liked where this world was headed He was suffering from what we think was undiagnosed PTSD from his time in Iraq and more recently Afghanistan He was only 41 Such a tragic loss A bright young engaging man There are times I struggle but I have people I can reach out to that I can talk to just to talk That always helps He apparently didnt have that outlet like so many others I dont know why he killed himself I can only speak from my own personal experience of the war Serving in Iraq was terrifying exhilarating and the most professionally meaningful experience of my life Youre in an extremely highpressure environment living in a goldfish bowl as the saying goes and you enjoy a tight sense of community Then poof wars over and youre flung into the diaspora and life has little meaning anymore In the case of Iraq so many of the Iraqis those of us Americans there came to know and trust and who trusted us paid with their lives for their association when ISIS took over large portions of the country which we had left to its fate Almost all of the Sunni leadership that I befriended in Anbar province are either dead or have fled for their lives to other countries Hunted down and marked for death as Americas former allies So my time in Iraq in retrospect may well have been wasted given Shia intransigence and hatred of the Sunnis which continues on So unlike good warsmeaning wars that America winsfor me theres no sense of accomplishment in looking back at the sacrifices in Iraq Just desolation and sorrow for the deaths of good people Bad policy got us into the Iraq war and bad policy led us to having to return there It remains to be seen what will happen in Afghanistan The war reporter Sebastian Junger in his book Tribe deals with the issue of coming home It resonates with a lot of us who were there civilian or military Todays veterans often come home to find that although theyre willing to die for their country theyre not sure how to live for it Its hard to know how to live for a country that regularly tears itself apart along every possible ethnic and demographic boundary The income gap between rich and poor continues to widen many people live in racially segregated communities and rampage shootings happen so regularly that they only remain in the news cycle for a day or two To make matters worse politicians accuse rivals of deliberately trying to harm their own countrya charge so destructive to group unity that most past societies would probably have just punished it as a form of treason Its complete madness and the veterans For many of those of us who served in Iraq and Afghanistan our tours were defining moments in our lives But returning home was a much more difficult challenge War changes you And it changes people in different ways I knew a 19yearold Marine so full of despair at the loss of a buddy that he beat his hand bloody hitting a wall Ive known a tough senior official a civilian who went red every day in Baghdad meaning taking a convoy ride near the Shia slum of Sadr City then arguably one of the most dangerous places in Iraq I was lucky I have friends and family I can talk with We want to hear what you think about this article to the editor or write to letterstheatlanticcom Marc Chretien the founding partner of Mt Defiance cidery and distillery in Middleburg Virginia He is a former 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