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Military: Armed Forces Locator Guideby Richard S. Johnson, Debra Johnson Knox |
 Chicken Soup for the Veteran's Soul:: Stories to Stir the Pride and Honor the Courage of Our Veterans
by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen (Editor), Sidney R. Slagter (Editor)
This self-help-guide-cum-tribute to veterans will appeal to wide readership (approximately 27 million Americans are veterans), just as so many other entries in Canfield and Hansen's blockbuster series have. Slagter founder of Veteran Stories Inc., "a corporation dedicated to honoring veterans from all wars and all branches of service" and the soul-soothing duo have recruited a strong lineup of contributors, among them Sen. John McCain, Bob Hope, Charles Kuralt (their names are on the cover as contributors), Secretary of State Colin Powell, Sen. Daniel Inouye and 75 others; and Walter Cronkite checks in with a blurb on the back of the book.
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Farewell, Darkness : A Veteran's Triumph over Combat Trauma
by Ron Zaczek.
The author skillfully relates his combat experiences, the delayed onset of P.T.S.D., its effect on his family, his treatment, and eventual conquest of his condition. The suspense slowly builds until the ultimate cause of his trauma, "the darkness" is revealed to the reader. Schedule your reading of "Farewell Darkness" when you have a lot of spare time. You may not be able to put this one down.
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Achilles in Vietnam : Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
by Jonathan Shay .
In this strikingly original and groundbreaking book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Although the Iliad was written twenty-seven centuries ago it has much to teach about combat trauma, as do the more recent, compelling voices and experiences of Vietnam.
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Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty
by Peter Collier, Nick Del Calzo (Photographer).
Since the Civil War more than 39 million men and women have answered the call to serve. Of those, 3,440 served with such uncommon valor and and extraordinary courage that they were presented with the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. Each of their heroic actionsis as unique as the person who performed it, and here more than one hundred of of America's living Medal of Honor recipients are honored and their bravery recounted.
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Stolen Valor : How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its Historyby B. G. Burkett, Glenna Whitley (Preface) "Stolen Valor" reviewed in The Weekly Standard: "Hard-nosed, provocative, and courageous, 'Stolen Valor' masterfully and on occasion gleefully debunks some of the popular canards and much of the anecdotal record about Vietnam veterans...For me, a reporter who is also a Vietnam veteran, 'Stolen Valor' goes on the shelf somewhere near Neil Sheehan's 'A Bright Shining Lie,' David Halberstam's 'The Best and the Brightest,' and a few other books whose lasting value is that they make more comprehensible some of the epic complexities of Vietnam, which was the central cultural event of my generation." -- Joe Sharkey, in The Weekly Standard, Sept. 7, 1998 |
 Veterans and Agent Orange
Health Effects of Herbicides
Used in Vietnam : Committee to Review the Health
Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Agent Orange. This is the definitive work on Agent Orange, published by the National Academy of Sciences in 1993. The report offers a comprehensive look at the entire issue and discusses the possible health problems resulting from herbicide exposure.
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 Veteran's Guide to Benefits
P. J. Budahn |
 Veteran's Survival Guide: How to File & Collect on Va Claims
by John D. Roche.
The author, a former claims adjudication specialist for the Veteran's Administration (VA), assembles the information veterans and their dependents need to file a claim for their federal benefits. According to Roche, the process is slow and complicated, and the VA is not helpful to those pursuing their rights. Roche concentrates on instructing readers in the key elements for securing benefits: constructing a "well-grounded claim" and complying with claims procedures. In plain language, he provides detailed descriptions of the steps involved and illustrates the discussion with examples and cautions. The author pulls no punches regarding the difficulties claimants encounter and succeeds in providing them with the information they need to work through a tangled system.
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 Against All Enemies:Gulf War Syndrome The War Between America's Ailing Veterans and Their Government by Seymour M. Hersh. "Why did the system fail the Gulf War veterans? Did national heroes such as Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell, who were known during their careers for taking care of their troops, have an obligation to speak out on behalf of the veterans--as many sick GIs believe--and demand that America's military hospitals stop turning them away? The unsettling fact is that the Gulf War was far more costly to the United States than the Pentagon and its former leaders are willing to acknowledge. The ninety thousand or so victims of Gulf War syndrome are friendly-fire casualties just as surely as if they had been fired upon by their fellow soldiers. The military's inevitable dilemma is profound: Can it protect our soldiers and sailors in future wars if it was unable to do so in the Gulf War?" |
 Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-Up of Gulf War Syndrome byPatrick G. Eddington. Unearthing hundreds of classified documents detailing the locations of Iraqi chemical munitions that were destroyed by American forces after the Gulf War. Eddington shows that tens of thousands of American troops had been exposed to deadly chemical agents. Those chemicals may be at least partly responsible for the chronic illnesses suffered by over 100,000 Desert Storm veterans . . . and for the birth defects among so many of their postwar children. |