Bibliograph

Volunteers, growing up in the forever war, Jerad W. Alexander

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Volunteers, growing up in the forever war, Jerad W. Alexander

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Volunteers

Oclc number

1227270397

Responsibility statement

Jerad W. Alexander

Sub title

growing up in the forever war

Summary

As a child, Alexander listened to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. Obsessed with all things military, he grew up playing with guns, joined the Civil Air Patrol for the uniform, and reveled in the closed and safe life within the embrace of the armed forces, the only world he knew or could imagine. He dreamed of enlisting like his mother, father, stepfather, and grandfather before him, and playing his part in the Great American War Story. He joined the US Marines straight out of high school, but once in Iraq he came to realize he was fighting a lost cause, enmeshed in the ongoing War on Terror that was really just a fruitless display of American might. Everything Alexander had planned his life around was a mirage. Here he delivers a passionate and timely reckoning with the troubled and cyclical truths of the American war machine. -- adapted from jacket

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Growing up in the forever war

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