Michael Jerome Plunkett is a writer from Long Island, a Marine Corps veteran, and former EMT. He is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Literature of War Foundation and host of The LitWar Podcast. His writing has appeared in Literary Hub, The War Horse, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Leatherneck Magazine, and other publications. He is the author of the novel Zone Rouge.
To speak of life without death is to describe sound without silence. One shapes the other. They are opposites yet contain complementary rhythms. But in Verdun, these two are entangled in a way that is difficult to separate. The fighting…
