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Uncommon Valor from Dwight Jon Zimmerman and John D. Gresham presents a fascinating look at six of our bravest soldiers and the highest military decoration awarded in this country.
Since the Vietnam War ended in 1973, the Medal of Honor, our nation's highest award for valor, has been presented to only eight men for their actions "above and beyond the call of duty." Six of the eight were young men who had fought in the current war in Iraq, Afghanistan,...
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One of the last great memoirs of World War II, Into the Cold Blue is a riveting account of the air war over Europe, when hell was four miles above the earth.
A born daredevil, John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after the Pearl Harbor attack. By 1944, he was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator over Nazi Germany, raining death and destruction on the enemy. This first-person account of his harrowing missions-chronicling deadly flights through skies of...
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Hundreds of thousands of military members are making the transition to civilian life each year. This transition is a move into unfamiliar territory and can be an extremely uncomfortable process. But there are resources in place that can relieve much of the stress of the challenging situations that may arise. In “Life After the Military: A Handbook for Transitioning Veterans”, authors Janelle Hill, Don Philpott, and Cheryl Lawhorne collect all...
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The author describes his Navy life beginning with growing up in the" Cradle of Naval Aviation" in Pensacola, Florida during the mid-1940's and 1950 time periods. He also writes about the social aspects of those times in Pensacola and the effects World War 11 naval officers and enlisted had on him. He writes about the deadly seriousness of combat flying and carrier aviation. He balances this seriousness and responsibilities to his country with more...
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Made public for the first time, this collection of more than 150 personal letters, telegrams, and V-mails sent to his parents in Atlanta, Georgia, from mid-1942 through December 1945, provides an eyewitness portal to the past that sheds light on a cast of characters from the greatest generation. A treasure trove of humor, anxiety, and hope, the letters reveal a young white Southerner thrust into a war that took him far from home, separated from family...
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When reading PTSD! "Endurance and Escape, Writings of Self-Consciousness", you will allow the author to take you on a journey describing the pitfalls and growing pains of our American active duty and military veterans. The author will also note the veterans' profound struggles while coping with day to day life surrounding family, friends, and loved ones.
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Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that
everyone is at most six steps away from, or
connected to, any other person on Earth.
While the Vietnam War was raging,
silver bracelets were created to raise
awareness of, and show support for,
American servicemen who were prisoners of
war (POW) or missing in action (MIA). After
the war, black bracelets were produced to
pay homage to any of our armed forces killed
in action (KIA). The orange bracelet...
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Step back in time to an era when the nation was torn asunder by conflict, and the unforgiving Vietnam War exacted a toll too heavy for the human spirit to bear. In this compelling narrative, you'll be introduced to eight exceptional graduates of Pennsylvania Military College, men whose stories have defied the test of time.
These remarkable individuals epitomize bravery, heroism, and honor, embodying these values as a way of life, not just empty...
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With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. At the moment, we accept rehabilitation as the proper social and cultural response to the wounded, swiftly returning injured combatants to their civilian lives. But this was not always the case, as Beth Linker reveals in her provocative new book, War's Waste. Linker...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2024.
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"After a deployment in the Iraq War dually defined by threat and interminable mundanity, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his past life and would-be future at his job, including contemporaries of his estranged father, a man he knows little about, serving time at Holmesburg prison for the statutory...
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"A richly detailed, slow-burning family saga distinguished by incisive psychological insight and masterful research. . . Shattuck is such a good writer, giving us swaths of cultural and historical background as gracefully and intelligently as she parses the emotional depths of her characters. Every note in the novel rings clear and true." — Kate Christensen, New York Times Book Review
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Fox News Books
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[2024]
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"Pete Hegseth joined the Army to fight extremists. Then that same Army called him one. The military Pete joined twenty years ago was fiercely focused on lethality, competency, and color blindness. Today our brass are following the rest of our country off the cliff of cultural chaos and weakness. Americans with common sense are fighting this on many fronts, but if we can't save the meritocracy of our military, we're definitely going to lose everywhere...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2024.
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"What was it like? It's the only thing anyone wants to know about war-and the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one of these fat and happy civilians crowding the bar. Dean is two months free from the Marine Corps, and life back in his Indiana hometown is anything but peaceful. That's when the woman next to him offers to buy him a drink. Max is nice-gorgeous, funny, easy to talk to. Dean doesn't dare tell her about...
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Little Brown & Company
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2024.
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Joe Hustle is a survivor. A Gulf War vet and ex-con always one stumble away from catastrophe, he manages to scrape together enough money from various jobs to eke out a precarious existence on the darker fringes of Los Angeles. When he meets Emily, the black-sheep daughter of a wealthy family, the two spark an instant connection--she seems like the best thing to happen to him in a while. But their whirlwind romance is put to the test when what starts...
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Morse Institute Library (14 East Central St., Natick, MA 01760)
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2024
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David Léasure joined the Navy in 2011, after he graduated from high school in Pennsylvania, for travel and adventure. He was trained as a cook, and spent his tour of duty in Japan
17) The judge
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Andy Roark mysteries volume 5
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Severn House
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2024.
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English
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"Boston, 1985. With the late December cold comes a new job for ex-military operative turned private investigator Andy Roark. Boston judge Ambrose Messer is being blackmailed, and he needs Roark's help to stop the culprit. Messer is judging the bench trial of a chemical company accused of knowingly dumping chemical waste in an unsafe manner, causing birth defects and cancer. The evidence against them is overwhelming, but the message from the blackmailer...
18) Wild's end
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BOOM! Studios
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2024.
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English
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"Lower Crowchurch is a small English community enjoying the peace of the 1930s, but when the town becomes the victim of an alien invasion, the residents' lives are upended by the harsh realities of life-and-death violence. Led by the town's outsider and retired war veteran, they will have to rally together to uncover the secret of their invaders and hope to fight back"--Publisher's website.
19) Day labor
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Freestyle Digital Media
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[2024]
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English
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A regular day turns into a deadly game of survival when a Latino American veteran who seeks work as a day laborer in order to keep his family afloat, is mistakenly dropped off at a private ranch in El Paso, Texas to be hunted for sport.
20) The covenant
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McCain chronicles volume 1
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Center Point Large Print
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2024.
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"It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The Wild West was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples: Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, and more. Elijah McCain, fresh from the Union army -- where he had attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel...
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