"Popular culture teaches young men to enjoy war, to act it out as play and then don a uniform as a rite of passage into manhood. This warrior myth has long held a powerful place in our society. In My River Home, Marcus Eriksen, a former marine, tells his own story as a way of articulating the danger of this myth. It took ten years and an adventure down the Mississippi River to help him come to terms with his experience of war." "Eriksen grew up,...