He was fighting to preserve a kind of national creed. He was killed in the name of another.

Before a bullet turned Alex Pretti into a symbol, he was a human being and a nurse. He had spent years working in the intensive-care unit of the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis, where he was responsible for the sickest and most badly injured veterans in the hospital. Within hours of the killing … More »

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