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What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice
Knopf
November 2014
On Sale: November 4, 2014
224 pages
ISBN: 1101874457
EAN: 9781101874455
Kindle: B00LDQP082
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
A celebration of the extraordinary courage, dedication, and
sacrifice of this generation of American veterans on the
battlefield and their equally valuable contributions on the
home front. Because so few of us now serve in the military, our men and
women in uniform have become strangers to us. We stand up at
athletic events to honor them, but we hardly know their true
measure. Here, Starbucks CEO and longtime veterans’ advocate
Howard Schultz and National Book Award finalist Rajiv
Chandrasekaran of The Washington Post offer an enlightening,
inspiring corrective. The authors honor acts of uncommon valor in Iraq and
Afghanistan, including an Army sergeant who repeatedly runs
through a storm of gunfire to save the lives of his wounded
comrades; two Marines who sacrifice their lives to halt an
oncoming truck bomb and protect thirty-three of their
brothers in arms; a sixty-year-old doctor who joins the Navy
to honor his fallen son. We also see how veterans make vital contributions once they
return home, drawing on their leadership skills and
commitment to service: former soldiers who aid residents in
rebuilding after natural disasters; a former infantry
officer who trades in a Pentagon job to teach in an
inner-city neighborhood; a retired general leading efforts
to improve treatments for brain-injured troops; the spouse
of a severely injured soldier assisting families in similar
positions. These powerful, unforgettable stories demonstrate just how
indebted we are to those who protect us and what they have
to offer our nation when their military service is done.
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