People rightly say “thank you for your service” to U.S. military personnel and veterans, but we don’t sufficiently recognize the interpreters who work with our military, who often face the same or greater danger.

Anwar Mohammad, who served as interpreter for the U.S. Army in Farah and Herat, Afghanistan, from 2001 to 2009, including service when my fellow soldiers and I established a base there in 2004 and 2005, was often better known by his code name, “Hollywood.”