Volunteers
Author: Alex;er, Jerad W.
ISBN: 9781616209964
RM148.50
Publisher,Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill
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In this passionate and provocative memoir, Jerad W. Alexander takes readers deep into the "kingdom"-the insular realm of military families growing up on bases around the world-and vividly evokes a childhood infused with all things war. As a young boy on an Air Force base in Utah, he lies in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window, and captures the sense of duty and also the loss his family felt when his stepfather deploys to Iraq. As a teen on a base in Japan, he wears the uniform and plays glorified war games and falls deep down the rabbit hole of Vietnam war literature. And always, always, there are the guns-toy and real-the movies, and the books, all part of a distinctly American sort of heroism and patriotism that Alexander fantasizes someday making his own.
