veterans

After eighteen years in the Marines, Rosalita Alvirde's father is struggling with civilian life, but when he decides to rejoin the military, Rosie's life starts to come apart--and it soon shows up in her school work and behavior.

A boy asks his father for help after his teacher asks each of her pupils to name a veteran whom he or she knows. The boy soon discovers that many of the familiar people who work in his neighborhood are heroes who have served in the country's military.

Through true stories, honors acts of uncommon valor in Iraq and Afghanistan, and tells of how veterans make vital contributions once they return home.

Contains a play in which lovers Ken Talley and Jed Jenkins, a Vietnam vet with no legs and a horticulturist, consider the offer of Gwen and John Landis, old college friends, to buy their Missouri farm and turn it into a recording studio, and they are also visited by Ken's sister, her daughter, and his old Aunt Sally.

Explores the difficulties faced by service men and women after they leave the military and return to civilian life and discusses the services available to them.

"Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a "normal" life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--.

A look at the Persian Gulf War through primary source accounts, facts, and overview analysis.