Bovine Intervention

Graeme Wood Aug 27 2009, 7:46 PM ET

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Earlier this year, I followed around an embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team in Fallujah, Iraq. Check out the September Atlantic (subscribe here) for my dispatch about Lockie Gary, who is in Fallujah training the widows of insurgents to become milkmaids.

Lockie Gary, dairy expert.

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