Tuley

Tuley's men get hit by rocket-propelled grenades or roadside bombs almost every time they drive the Pech River road by the mouth of the Korengal Valley, about three miles from the Nangalam base.

Afghan Base Tests U.S. Exit Plans Michael M. Phillips 2011

Tuley says his men, stationed at the far end of the valley, were rarely able, even with aircraft overflights, to confirm Afghan reports that Nangalam was under attack.

Afghan Base Tests U.S. Exit Plans Michael M. Phillips 2011

Tuley experienced what he describes as "a blinding flash of the obvious."

Afghan Base Tests U.S. Exit Plans Michael M. Phillips 2011

Colin Tuley, commander of 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, the main U.S. force in the area.

Afghan Base Tests U.S. Exit Plans Michael M. Phillips 2011

Tuley warned Afghan army and police commanders over dinner in Nangalam in October.

Afghan Base Tests U.S. Exit Plans Michael M. Phillips 2011

My dad lost his mother at the age of four; Bellow's high school years were haunted by the lingering illness of Liza Bellow, who died only a month after her son graduated from Tuley High.

Missing Bellow 2005

That high school, Tuley, was the same one my father attended.

Missing Bellow 2005

According to my dad's closest pal in those years, Irving Pesock, my father and he had only limited interaction with Bellow's circle — the self-styled "intelligentsia," as Pesock refers to them, who wrote for The Tuley Review.

Missing Bellow 2005

Reading the obits that mentioned that Bellow had attended Tuley, the mental crossing gates finally lifted and I realized that my relationship, such as it was, was with two men, not one — a harmonic that undoubtedly complicated my few personal dealings with Bellow, but which, I also realized, dramatically heightened my stake in his books and my appreciation of them.

Missing Bellow 2005

Because my grandfather did not want his motherless son on the streets, he pushed my dad into summer school, which led him to graduate from Tuley at the age of fifteen, in January of 1934, only one year after Bellow.

Missing Bellow 2005