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"Sixty-eight-year-old David has a brain tumor that he attributes to Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating the name of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline, and decides to return something precious he long ago stole from that man"--OCLC.

Michael Donnelly discusses why he thinks that he contracted Lou Gehrig's Disease because of the time he spent fighting in the Gulf War and explains what he is doing to help other Gulf War veterans prove that they were exposed to chemical agents in the war.

War veteran Luis Carlos Montalv?n reflects on his advocacy with his beloved golden retriever service dog, Tuesday,as they hit the road for America's wounded warriors until his death to suicide prior to publication.

Edmonds, a Special Forces captain and military advisor in Iraq, looks into torture and its effect on both the tortured and the torturer, and provides an account of the morally ambiguous choices faced when living with and fighting within a foreign religion and culture, as well as the resulting psychological and spiritual impacts on a soldier.

The story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca and the handlers who fought alongside her through wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, discussing her four hundred mission career and the bond she developed with her handlers.

Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student, experiences love, war, and poverty on his path toward self-realization in the World War I era.

Examines the political origins of Roosevelt's second New Deal and discusses how World War I veterans and veteran politics influenced programs that were passed between 1934 and 1936.

A powerfully delivered narrative of a young soldier, his unlikely dream, and how he found his way out of darkness, Rise is inspiring, quintessentially American, and will resonate with anyone who has ever fought for what they what they wanted.

In the spring of 1974, as the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Ron Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a California VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement. In a phenomenal feat of political organizing, Kovic corralled his fellow AVM members into staging a sit-in, and then a hunger strike, in the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston, demanding better treatment of injured and disabled veterans. This was a short-lived and chaotic but ultimately successful movement to improve the deplorable conditions in VA hospitals across the country. Hurricane Street is their story--one that resonates deeply today--told by Kovic in the passionate and brutally honest style that led to over one million sales of Born on the Fourth of July.

Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.