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Soldier’s daughter longs for a state, but feels anger as well

Alia Douglas was raised with stories of her father fighting for his homeland. For her, these… Alia Douglas was raised with stories of her father fighting for his homeland. For her, these stories were the type of patriotic tales of soldiers and noble causes that Americans swap on Memorial Day or the Fourth of July.

But these stories will never be told on the Fourth of July, and the terms noble and patriotic aren

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