Atonement
Along with his fellow-marines, Lu Lobello killed innocent bystanders in a chaotic Baghdad firefight. Then he sought out the family he harmed. Dexter Filkins reports.
"I need to talk to you, if you let me. I have so much to say to you. I have so much to say." At 2:30 a.m., eight years after his Marine company shot maybe two dozen Iraqi civilians in one day, Luis Lobello pressed send on a Facebook message to a young woman named Nora—maybe the one with the bloody shoulder.