Marine Corps combat veteran · speaker · author · photographer
Kenny Bass
Kenny speaks and writes about the Iraq War, his partnership with Atlas, and the decision to build something useful from circumstances he did not choose. He is also bringing photographs from his 2003 deployment into public view.
From experience to service
Atlas helped reopen the world. Service gave that return a direction.
Atlas became Kenny’s service dog, constant partner, and a bridge back into public life. Their partnership helped inspire Kenny to co-found The Battle Buddy Foundation, extending hard-won experience into service for other veterans and their families. That connection still runs through the work Kenny makes now.
Speaking
What the worst days don’t get to decide.
Kenny speaks about what follows when a life or mission changes without permission: the hidden cost of participation, responsibility before certainty, and the practical decisions involved in moving forward. His experience includes a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Veterans Day keynote and public conversations across national media.
Photography · Iraq, 2003
A Marine’s Disposable War
Made with one disposable camera Kenny carried during his deployment, these photographs show people, machinery, scale, and what war leaves behind. Rediscovered more than two decades later, they now form a documentary body of work.
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Three books, each with its own form.
If Not for the Blast, a compressed memoir; A Marine’s Disposable War, a photographic book drawn from the Iraq archive; and Atlas & Friends, a children’s story about working dogs, disability, empathy, and respect.
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