Dan is a multiple tour platoon leader who engaged in combat missions during the United States campaign in Iraq. He was honorably discharged from service following injuries he received in the field and now builds playgrounds in impoverished and war torn areas with an organization called Kids Around The World.

I accompanied Dan as he returned to Iraq. Where he onced carried an M4, he now carries power tools.

Communities who were forced to flee during the war are now returning. But restoring cities previously home to hundreds of thousands of Iraqis is no easy task, and there is much work to be done. For Dan, rebuilding Iraq is an act of redemption which unites those returning to their homeland and heals the wounds of ISIS.