And it wasn't one or two.

It was the entire village was coming out onto the street and I'm running down the middle

of it.

They were closing in around me.

When Devon Higgins got into counterintelligence, the Twin Towers still were standing and the

job mostly involved running assets and hotspots as a way of keeping tabs on potential threats.

But when he found himself in Iraq in the early days of the war on terror, running assets

took on an urgency he couldn't have imagined before.

Because in Iraq, there always was a ticking bomb somewhere.

I hear this loud explosion.

I automatically knew what would happen.

I knew it was a bomb.

What is true bravery?

What makes a hero a hero?

Tested by the worries of what's happening at home thousands of miles away and the reality

of what you're facing here and now.

When your life is in danger every second and it's either killed or be killed.

An original podcast from Incongruity Media.

This is Anthony Russo and this is War.

Devon Higgins left college to join the army in the late 1990s.

He already was married but the demands of work in school meant he didn't see his wife

Rebecca that often.

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