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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

"Where you're going, there are no second chances."

Brian Mockenhaupt's vivid essay in Esquire

Brian wrote this in about four hours. It crackles with the kind of detail that puts a reader there, in the heads of the nervous soldiers heading into the unknown.

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