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Photographs and documents from two decades of service and advocacy. Collected here because the sources move or disappear — several of the original links no longer resolve.

At the Al-Shaab amphitheater in Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, serving with the Marine Corps.

On the outskirts of Karbala, Iraq, 2003.

Photographed in Ferguson during the 2014 protests, in Marine Corps dress blues. The photograph was distributed by The New York Times; the original page is no longer live.

Announcing the class action on March 2, 2018 at the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School, with Senator Richard Blumenthal. The suit, filed with the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress and represented by the Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic, became Manker v. Del Toro.

Speaking on behalf of veterans discharged with less-than-honorable characterizations — "bad paper" — at a Fairness for Veterans press conference at the Capitol, alongside members of Congress and veterans advocates.

As mayor, signed Mayoral Order 01-2021 on July 4, 2021, declaring the Second Amendment and its interpreting Supreme Court cases the supreme law in the Village, barring any village department from conducting unlawful gun confiscation, and prohibiting the use of taxpayer resources to seize or impede lawfully owned firearms.

Founded the Institute for Constitutional Military Law, a nonpartisan research and advocacy organization dedicated to the constitutional rights of American servicemembers and veterans. My legal work now runs through the Institute; I no longer take private clients.

On October 1, 2026 the Defense Department's deadline to summarize and index the decisions of the military records-correction boards passed without action. The Institute opened the Reading Room — 305,391 decisions, summarized, searchable, and free to anyone.

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