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In the current issue of The New Yorker, George Packer writes about the death of one 22-year-old soldier, Kurt Frosheiser, in Iraq in 2003. He tells us about how Kurt’s death affected his father and his fellow soldiers, and what it says about death during war.

Music: “Hours” soundtrack, composed by Philip Glass; tracks “Something She has to do” and “For your own benefit”