Scott McMillion » The Cost of War http://scottmcmillion.com Journalist, author of "Mark of the Grizzly," senior editor of Montana Quarterly Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:27:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 “A Soldier Comes Home” http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/12/a-soldier-comes-home/ http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/12/a-soldier-comes-home/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:37:44 +0000 Scott http://scottmcmillion.com/?p=912 By Scott McMillion
Photography by Wayne Twiehaus, Larry Mayer (Billings Gazette)
Sketch of First Lt. Paul Magers courtesy of Magers Family
Montana Quarterly
Winter 2010

Nearly four decades after his death, a town gathers to honor a pilot and ponder the memories of a bitter war.


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The Montana Quarterly
Winter, 2009
Photography by Thomas Lee

Against all odds, after barely surviving the Bataan Death March, Billings artists Ben Steele went on to make his life an act of generosity.

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Montana Quarterly
Spring 2008.

Mere statistics don’t begin to tell the story of Montana’s fallen soldiers — sons, fathers and husbands — each with a story to share, each worth remembering.

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