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    On Veterans Day, here are stories that honor heroes and homecoming

    by NPR Staff Nov 11, 2022 4 minutes
    The Veterans Day Parade on Nov. 11, 2019 in New York City.

    We dug into the NPR Books archives to find stories of combat and coping. Scroll down to explore novels, memoirs and poetry by veterans, as well as chronicles of war and returning from war — both historical and present day:

    'Half American' explores how Black WWII servicemen were treated better abroad
    Though more than one million Black Americans contributed to the war effort, historian Matthew Delmont says a military uniform offered no protection from racism. (Fresh Air, Nov. 7, 2022)

    Marine Sgt. TJ Brennan suffered from memory loss after being injured by a grenade in Afghanistan in 2010. Finbarr O'Reilly captured the event on film. The two

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