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Walter's purple heart
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Catherine Ryan Hyde |
"Michael Steeb is an aimless twenty-one-year-old pot farmer living a day-to-day existence in an unfinished farmhouse in central California in the 1980s. He has no real plans or interests - until the … |
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Paying the human costs of war
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Christopher Gelpi |
The book finds that the most important consideration for the public is the expectation of success. If the public believes that a mission will succeed, the public will support it even if the costs are… |
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Brothers forever
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Tom Sileo |
"Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men… |
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The lost soldier
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Diney Costeloe |
Eight ash trees were planted in the Dorset village of Charlton Ambrose, as a timeless memorial to the men killed in the Great War. One dark and chilly night in 1921, a ninth tree appears. Who planted… |
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Reluctant Warriors
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Patrick M. Dennis |
xvii, 311 pages : 24 cm |
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For your tomorrow
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Melanie Murray |
"What compels a young, affluent Canadian to put on a uniform and risk his life for the controversial mission in Afghanistan? And how does his family cope with his loss when he is killed there? Jeff F… |
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After the Flag Has Been Folded
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Karen Spears Zacharias |
Karen Spears was nine years old, living with her family in a trailer in rural Tennessee, when her father, David Spears, was killed in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. It was 1966 -- in a nation being … |
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