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A recipient of two Purple Hearts gives readers an inside view of US Army special forces through his own trial by fire during the Vietnam War.
Days before he was drafted in 1962, Dennis Foley volunteered to join the army in the hopes of someday getting into West Point. He was only eighteen years old. At basic training in Fort Dix, New Jersey, a presentation by two impressive, self-confident special forces sergeants made an indelible impression on...
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Ellis Press
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[2017]
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English
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This book explores four corners of Pichaske's life. The first section contains scholarly articles on diverse writers including T.S. Eliot, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and Dr. Seuss. The next section, "Life in Postmodern Academia", contains Pichaske's clips on politically correct academic life. In "Home" he describes life in Illinois and Minnesota. He concludes the book with "Abroad" where he relates stories of his four years of Senior Fulbright Fellowships...
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"How can we trust God in the dark? Framed around the nighttime prayer of Compline, Tish Harrison Warren explores human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence as she recalls her own experience navigating a time of doubt and loss. This book offers a prayerful and frank approach to the difficulties in our ordinary lives at work, at home, and in a world filled with uncertainty"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 15
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"The harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi. 13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghazi, Libya. A team of six American security operators fought to repel the attackers and protect the Americans stationed...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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Missing Presumed Dead is Gerard Reed's personal journey to discover what became of Heinrich Bornkamp, a German soldier of World War One, whose wallet he discovered in a collector's shop window in Adelaide, South Australia. Gerard felt connected to past lives as the wallet revealed its secrets, telling a story of loss and love thwarted by war. Bornkamp's wallet was a link to a loss in Gerard's family as his great uncle Pat Murphy was 'missing presumed...
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Charlesbridge
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[2020]
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"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens...
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When the Holocaust descended on Poland, two young Jews fought back-and fell in love Jack and Rochelle first met at a youth dance in Poland before the war. They shared one dance, and Jack stepped on Rochelle's shoes. She was unimpressed. When the Nazis invaded eastern Poland in 1941, both Jack (in the town of Mir) and Rochelle (in the town of Stolpce) witnessed the horrors of ghettoization, forced labor, and mass killings that decimated their families....
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The tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is an occasion sure to be observed around the world. But among the memorials, political speeches, and news editorials, the most pressing consideration--and often the most overlooked--is the lives and well-being of the 9/11 first responders, their families, and the victims' families over the past decade.
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2020.
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"An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding...
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A chilling true-life account of surviving nearly a year of captivity in Iraq.
AK47s, masked thugs, and brutal urgency erupt from Roy Hallums' account of his abduction in Iraq, shredding through those frequently sterile cable news reports revealing that another American contractor is being held hostage. Hallums was the everyman behind that report, a fifty-six-year-old retired Naval commander working as a food supply contractor in Baghdad's high-end...
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