Jake Spann

Jake Spann currently lives in Traverse City, Michigan and is an avid poet and aspiring screenwriter.

From my dad's death in Afghanistan 20 years ago to Taliban retaking the country. How did we get here?

OPINION November 27, 2021

From my dad's death in Afghanistan 20 years ago to Taliban retaking the country. How did we get here?

On Nov. 25, 2001, I was an infant when a group of Marines came to my family’s house to inform us that my father, Johnny “Mike” Spann, wasn’t coming home. He had been killed in Afghanistan.