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Seriously Not All Right
Ron Capps
Five Wars in Ten Years
Schaffner Press
May 2014
On Sale: May 1, 2014
278 pages ISBN: 1936182580 EAN: 9781936182589 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
For more than a decade, Ron Capps, serving as both a senior
military intelligence officer and as a Foreign Service
officer for the U.S. Department of State, was witness to war
crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. From government
atrocities in Kosovo, to the brutal cruelties perpetrated in
several conflicts in central Africa, the wars in both
Aghanistan and Iraq, and culminating in genocide in Darfur,
Ron acted as an intelligence collector and reporter but was
diplomatically restrained from taking preventative action in
these conflicts. The cumulative effect of these experiences, combined with
the helplessness of his role as an observer, propelled him
into a deep depression and a long bout with PTSD, which
nearly caused him to take his own life. Seriously Not All
Right is a memoir that provides a unique perspective of a
professional military officer and diplomat who suffered (and
continues to suffer) from PTSD. His story, and that of his
recovery and his newfound role as founder and teacher of the
Veterans Writing Project, is an inspiration and a sobering
reminder of the cost of all wars, particularly those that
appeared in the media and to the general public as merely
sidelines in the unfolding drama of world events.
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