A collection of stories from the legion of characters who call New York's five boroughs home.
By Alicia Cruz
For The Black Urban Times
Maurice Decaul is the focus of The New York Times' one in 8 million this week. After serving more than four-years on active duty and in the reserves with America's most elite fighting branch of the military, the Marines, Decaul 29, is now a student at Columbia, majoring in creative writing.
Decaul spent five months in Nasiriya, Iraq with his Marine reserve unit and says that his poetry and writing are "a way of dealing with what's going on in my head." He resides in Flatbush with his wife Candy and their three children. Click here for Decaul's story and to view more of the "One in 8 Million" series.
By Alicia Cruz
For The Black Urban Times
Maurice Decaul is the focus of The New York Times' one in 8 million this week. After serving more than four-years on active duty and in the reserves with America's most elite fighting branch of the military, the Marines, Decaul 29, is now a student at Columbia, majoring in creative writing.
Decaul spent five months in Nasiriya, Iraq with his Marine reserve unit and says that his poetry and writing are "a way of dealing with what's going on in my head." He resides in Flatbush with his wife Candy and their three children. Click here for Decaul's story and to view more of the "One in 8 Million" series.
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