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Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine
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These intelligent, self-questioning and powerful short essays move between memories of battle, thoughts on war, and the story of the recovery process of a Marine Captain who returned from Iraq in the midst of full-blown post-traumatic stress disorder. Packing Inferno reflects the fragmented consciousness of the combat veteran. Even if the war in Iraq were to end tomorrow, the adjustment to domestic life of soldiers, tens of thousands severely injured and many undergoing the difficult realities of PTSD, and realizing their betrayal by the American government, will be the major concern of our culture in the following decade. Packing Inferno asks the hard-hitting questions in a way totally unexpected of a Marine officer. This is a remarkable book.
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