This 101st Airborne story gets odder and odder. From the Washington Post today: “Akbar was born Mark Fidel Kools, but his mother changed his name to Hasan Akbar after she remarried when he was a young boy. Akbar used the name Kools to join the Army and switched back to Akbar once a soldier. Public records show names for both.”
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