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Alex Horton (b. 1985)

Alex Horton (b. 1985) is a native Texan and a U.S. Army veteran of the war in Iraq. In 2006, Horton started a blog, Army of Dude, as a way of keeping in touch with his family and telling them about Army life. Horton disliked writing in high school, but in the military, he says, "writing became my only creative outlet, a way to relay thoughts and experiences that I would never dare speak out loud. . . . This blog was a closely guarded secret."