CAMP TAJI – Internal strife that tore Colombia apart in the 1990s affected the lives of many, including a 15-year-old now deployed as a sgt in the U.S. Army. After his father was brutally murdered by extremist guerillas in 1993, Alexander Tarazona set off on a rapid new path that would take him from the Colombian army, to what was then Czechoslovakia, and finally to his 2nd military destination – the U.S. Army.
