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Volunteers : growing up in the forever war / Jerad W. Alexander.

Summary:
"The memoir of a young man from a long line of enlisted men and women, raised on military bases and shaped from a young age to idolize and glorify war and the people who fight it. After he joins the Marines and serves in Iraq, he must begin to reckon with the troubled and complicated truths of the American war machine"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781616209964
  • ISBN: 1616209968
  • Physical Description: 307 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2021]
Subject: Alexander, Jerad W., 1980-
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Personal narratives.
Children of military personnel > United States > Biography.
United States. Marine Corps > Biography.
Military life > United States.
Military socialization > United States.
Militarism > United States.
Coming of age.

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  • 7 of 7 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Summary: "The memoir of a young man from a long line of enlisted men and women, raised on military bases and shaped from a young age to idolize and glorify war and the people who fight it. After he joins the Marines and serves in Iraq, he must begin to reckon with the troubled and complicated truths of the American war machine"--

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