Can't help myself - another Chris Jones article. This one is considered his best writing to date (winner of the 2009 National Magazine Award for feature writing). and is from the May 2008 issue of Esquire.  In The Things That Carried Him, Chris tells the story of a KIA American soldier in Iraq and his journey home.  Pay attention to the way he chose to write this article - its written backwards - I know, you'll see when you read it.

Here is an extremely long interview with Chris about his writing process, and he goes into a lot of background of how the story came together.

Read the CNN article that piqued Chris' interest here.  Also, here's another interview with Esquire magazine about Chris and more on the article background here.