Benjamin Fortier

I was recollecting all the times I had struggled to fall asleep. It felt like thousands, if not tens of thousands, of hours staring

This is a revised essay, the original of which I wrote nearly two decades ago as a High School student. It is about my grandfather.

It’s hard for me not to react emotionally to the news of Sarah Cavanaugh being revealed as a “stolen valor” con artist.

An article about how simple machines have changed the landscape of devices and hardware.

My online social media accounts were filled with praise for our troops (particularly the Marine Corps) for hunting down and killing insurgen