Brian Bluebird

Brian Bluebird was part of a proud, highly trained military unit that led the U.S. invasion of the island of Grenada in 1983. Last week, however, I found him sitting on a dirty walkway in the tiny town of White Clay as he awoke from a drinking binge (above). I listened for a couple hours as he told me pieces of his life story. He recounted having a good friend shot and killed next to him in