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Minefields of the Heart A Mother's Stories of a Son at War / Sue Diaz ; foreword by Jim Frederick.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Diaz, Sue.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mothers and sons--United States--Biography.
Mothers and sons.
Soldiers--Family relationships--United States.
Soldiers.
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Social aspects--United States.
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Diaz, Sue.
Diaz, Roman.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (185 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Manufacture:
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015
Place of Publication:
Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2010.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
How do combat veterans and their loved ones bridge the divide that war, by its very nature, creates between them? Diaz recounts the emotional rollercoaster her family and other soldiers' families experience during and after deployment.
Contents:
Introduction
The road to war
Lifting the lid
Roman's choice
Soldier from suburbia
Basic training, Fort Benning, Georgia
Infantryman's creed
To basic training and beyond
with Spongebob
War
Not a video game
Marching towards Baghdad
Seven ducklings
Answering the call
Both sides now
Brothers in arms
Dad's d-day diary
Grocery shopping with Lucinda
A rare snail-mail letter from Roman
The Spongebob letters I
Baghdad Christmas
A holiday tradition
A taste of home
The Spongebob letters II
Weapons of mass illusion
The family on the beach
Not so fast
The Spongebob letters III
Sergeant Horton's Marlboros
At home and between deployments
Coming home
A separate peace
The Spongebob letters IV
Christmas card, 2004
A new assignment. another trip home
Moments to remember
Coming home once more to say good-bye again
Target practice
Once more to the lake
Walking the walk
Hurricane Katrina
Sarge
The Spongebob letters V
The hell of war
Letters
A letter from home Roman nearly never read
Doorbell moment
Christmas card, 2005
A Christmas apart
Encounter with an IED
A soldier's silence
War as it happens
Up in smoke
Making a difference
Moonlight and mizunos
From bad to worse
Attack at Yusufiyah
Fallen eagles
Lucinda, keeping it real
Operation brain surgery
To Baghdad via books and Berkeley
The innocent days
The journey home begins
The soldiers' return
The road home
Guernica revisited
The notebooks.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-59797-563-X
OCLC:
755573494

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