Todd Kruse graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1988 and then spent 9 years in the Army Infantry, including combat with an Infantry/Tank battalion in Desert Storm, 1991. The brigade he fought with won the Valorous Unit Award for operations against the Iraqi Republican Guard Forces. In 1997 he left the Army to attend the Yale School of Management and has since worked in the high tech field as a Product Manager and Roadmap Planner. Todd is also a passionate abstract artist and painter of old photographs. He’s always had a passion for creativity and with PTP’s Veteran Voices program, for the first time, he expanded that passion to writing and performing.