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What they signed up for : true stories by ordinary soldiers / edited and with an afterword by Jeb Wyman ; foreword by Ethan Casey.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks DS 79.766 .A1 W53 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Personal narratives.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Veterans--United States--Personal narratives.
- Veterans.
- Iraq.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 311 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, WA : Blue Ear Books, 2017.
- Summary:
- They grew up on wheat farms in Eastern Washington, on a reservation in Oklahoma, in military housing on an Air Force base in Arizona. They signed up to be Marines, soldiers, airmen, and sailors, and they became medics, truck drivers, mechanics, and infantrymen. They enlisted to honor family tradition, to find purpose in their lives, to lift themselves out of poverty, to be patriots. And they went to war. In What They Signed Up For, eighteen American veterans tell their stories of going to war and life after they came home. In the cities of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, they witnessed the carnage of IEDs and survived daily mortar attacks. They put friends in body bags and saw others grievously wounded. But for many veterans, the war didn't end when they took off their uniform. The invisible wounds of war run deeper, and are more painful, than America wants to know. The cost of war continues back home.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Ethan Casey
- We got to the point there's no coming back / Deshaun Caples
- Let me go back / Dominic Wilkerson
- The boy on the bridge / Robin Eckstein
- Goodbye letters are bad luck / Miguel Escalera
- We were fucking great at it / Kevin Chose
- My job was to destroy the enemy / Dennis Eller
- Firefly / Emmanuel Wright
- There's no reason to cry / Zong Her
- Our cause was just / Mike Farnum
- Tell that dude not to shoot me / Jeff Radcliff
- The heroes of the day / Timm Lovitt
- I will forever bleed blue / Nikki Davis
- Only the dead see the end of war / Justin Shults
- Maybe your problem is listening to sad music / Joe Jocson Porter
- Too many miles in my boots / Joe Stone, Sr.
- A prison like mine is a quiet place / Adam Cajiuat Posadas
- I already know why you're here / Danielle Villanueva
- The one thing she was put on this earth to do / Brandon Mitalas
- Where they're at now
- Afterword / Jeb Wyman.
- ISBN:
- 9780984406388
- 0984406387
- OCLC:
- 1005263944
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