Death Of A Green Soldier

Author : Michael Wright
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781449797997

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Death of a Green Soldier by Michael Wright Pdf

After a tough childhood growing up in a small Michigan town, Mark Welch decides to join the US Army. Its the 1970s, in the midst of the Cold War, but Mark is ready to experience more of the world. He finds himself stationed in Germany, where he makes friends with a variety of peoplesome who are good, and some who may take him down a dangerous path. Fellow soldier Jacob Multer is a strong Christian, while Marks new roommate, Kurt Talagan, has been around the block more than once. Kurt gives Mark his first taste of smoking dope, and its a move that sends Marks life spiraling out of control. Jacob sees the destruction happening and wants to help, but he doesnt know howother than praying for Mark. Unfortunately, Mark moves deeper into a world of addiction and confusion. When Mark sustains severe injuries after a drunken fall, the army finds out about his drug use and forces him to start seeing a counselor. But his demons are larger than he thought, and he cant quit the lifestyle hes grown accustomed to. Its only when he reconnects with Jacob again that he hears the powerful message of the Gospel and comes to understand that Jesus may be the answer to escaping his messed up life.

Author : Sofya Aptekar
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262373654

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Green Card Soldier by Sofya Aptekar Pdf

An in-depth and troubling look at a little-known group of immigrants—non-citizen soldiers who enlist in the US military. While the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country, the reality is that nearly 5 percent of all first-time military recruits are noncitizens. Their reasons for enlisting are myriad, but many are motivated by the hope of gaining citizenship in return for their service. In Green Card Soldier, Sofya Aptekar talks to more than seventy noncitizen soldiers from twenty-three countries, including some who were displaced by conflict after the US military entered their homeland. She identifies a disturbing pattern: the US military’s intervention in foreign countries drives migration, which in turn supplies the military with a cheap and desperate labor pool—thereby perpetuating the cycle. As Aptekar discovers, serving in the US military is no guarantee against deportation, and yet the promise of citizenship and the threat of deportation are the carrot and stick used to discipline noncitizen soldiers. Viewed at various times as security threats and members of a model minority, immigrant soldiers sometimes face intense discrimination from their native-born colleagues and superiors. Their stories—stitched through with colonial legacies, white supremacy, exploitation, and patriarchy—show how the tensions between deservingness and suspicion shape their enlistment, service, and identities. Giving voice to this little-heard group of immigrants, Green Card Soldier shines a cold light on the complex workings of US empire, globalized militarism, and citizenship.

Author : Jim Frederick
Publisher : Crown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307450982

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Black Hearts by Jim Frederick Pdf

“Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters.”—New York Times Book Review This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as “the Black Heart Brigade.” Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq’s so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south of Baghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably the country’s most dangerous location at its most dangerous time. Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks, suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring a chronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heart platoon—1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion—descended, over their year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse, and brutality. Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the most heinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the Iraq War—the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-blooded execution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldiers would be overrun at a remote outpost—one killed immediately and two taken from the scene, their mutilated corpses found days later booby-trapped with explosives. Black Hearts is an unflinching account of the epic, tragic deployment of 1st Platoon. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with Black Heart soldiers and first-hand reporting from the Triangle of Death, Black Hearts is a timeless story about men in combat and the fragility of character in the savage crucible of warfare. But it is also a timely warning of new dangers emerging in the way American soldiers are led on the battlefields of the twenty-first century.

Author : Robin Sterling
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781304330703

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Blount County, Alabama Confederate Soldiers, Volume 3: Miscellaneous by Robin Sterling Pdf

Mary Gordon Duffee wrote: "When the drums beat, and the bugles called for men to march to the front, I tell you old Blount responded nobly, and sent hundreds of her gallant sons to march, fight, suffer and die for the flag that now lies furled forever." This series of books attempts to identify all the Confederate soldiers who enlisted in organizations from the Blount County area, along with those who moved to Blount County after the Civil War. Whole company rosters are captured and entire service records, pension applications, birth dates, spouses and marriage dates, newspaper clippings and obituaries, and dozens of pictures are contained in these volumes. This is the first time ever all this information has been available in a single reference book. Volume 3 contains information on soldiers who enlisted in other Alabama organizations and those who moved to Blount County after the Civil War. These books are vital to any serious student of Blount County, Alabama genealogy and history.

Author : Peter S. Kindsvatter
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700614165

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American Soldiers by Peter S. Kindsvatter Pdf

Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning, and despair. This was certainly true for twentieth-century American ground troops. Whether embracing or being demoralized by war, these men risked their lives for causes larger than themselves with no promise of safe return. This book is the first to synthesize the wartime experiences of American combat soldiers, from the doughboys of World War I to the grunts of Vietnam. Focusing on both soldiers and marines, it draws on histories and memoirs, oral histories, psychological and sociological studies, and even fiction to show that their experiences remain fundamentally the same regardless of the enemy, terrain, training, or weaponry. Peter Kindsvatter gets inside the minds of American soldiers to reveal what motivated them to serve and how they were turned into soldiers. He recreates the physical and emotional aspects of war to tell how fighting men dealt with danger and hardship, and he explores the roles of comradeship, leadership, and the sustaining beliefs in cause and country. He also illuminates soldiers’ attitudes toward the enemy, toward the rear echelon, and toward the home front. And he tells why some broke down under fire while others excelled. Here are the first tastes of battle, as when a green recruit reported that “for the first time I realized that the people over the ridge wanted to kill me,” while another was befuddled by the unfamiliar sound of bullets whizzing overhead. Here are soldiers struggling to cope with war’s stress by seeking solace from local women or simply smoking cigarettes. And here are tales of combat avoidance and fraggings not unique to Vietnam, of soldiers in Korea disgruntled over home-front indifference, and of the unique experiences of African American soldiers in the Jim Crow army. By capturing the core “band of brothers” experience across several generations of warfare, Kindsvatter celebrates the American soldier while helping us to better understand war’s lethal reality--and why soldiers persevere in the face of its horrors.

Author : Robin Sterling
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781304221636

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Cullman County, Alabama Confederate Soldiers by Robin Sterling Pdf

At the time of the Civil War, Cullman County did not exist. It was carved mostly from the East side of Winston and the West side of Blount in 1877. This book attempts to identify all of the Confederate soldiers originating from the area which became Cullman County, as well as those who migrated to the county after the War. The book also contains rare first person accounts of the war as told by Cullman County residents George Martin Holcombe and Elijah Wilson Harper and printed in the Cullman Alabama Tribune. This book is important to the genealogy and history of Cullman County and contains much previously unpublished information on the old soldiers. It contains service records, pension applications, births, deaths, marriages, and obituaries.

Author : Ohio. Roster Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
ISBN : UOM:39015042015092

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Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866 by Ohio. Roster Commission Pdf

Author : Licking County Soldiers' Monumental Association, Newark, O.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Licking County (Ohio)
ISBN : PRNC:32101068934775

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Licking County's Gallant Soldiers by Licking County Soldiers' Monumental Association, Newark, O. Pdf

Author : Robin Sterling
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781304218360

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Winston County, Alabama Confederate Soldiers by Robin Sterling Pdf

Much has been written about men who joined the Federal Army from the so-called Hill Country in Alabama which included Winston County. Little has been written about the men who enlisted from Winston in the Confederacy. Surprisingly, the number of Winston County Confederates almost matched the number of those who supported the Union. Many important Confederate officers hailed from Winston County. The book begins with an essay describing the Forgotten Winston County Confederates. Following is an alphabatized list of all Confederate soldiers associated with Winston County including those that moved in after the war. Information includes service records, pension applications, birth, marriage, and death information. The book is filled with rare photos and obituaries. Additional information includes articles on Captain White's Mail Guard and the Winston County Rough and Ready Volunteers. Full name index. This book is important to students of Winston County History.

Author : Robin Sterling
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781304330499

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Blount County, Alabama Confederate Soldiers, Volume 1: Cavalry by Robin Sterling Pdf

Mary Gordon Duffee wrote in 1892: "When the drums beat, and the bugles called for men to march to the front, I tell you old Blount responded nobly, and sent hundreds of her gallant sons to march, fight, suffer and die for the flag that now lies furled forever." This series of books identifies Confederate soldiers who enlisted from the Blount County area, plus those who moved to Blount County after the Civil War. Company rosters are captured and service records, pension applications, birth dates, spouses and marriage dates, newspaper clippings and obituaries, and pictures are contained in these volumes. This is the first time ever all this information has been available in a single reference book. Cavalry companies examined here include: 12th Alabama Cavalry, Companies B and C; 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Company G; Lewis Battalion Alabama Cavalry, Companies B and E; Graves, Barbiere, and Stewart's Alabama Cavalry; Holloway's Escort; and the 3rd Confederate Cavalry, Company D.

Author : Charles D. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Ohio
ISBN : OSU:32435014068142

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Report of the Great Re-union of the Veteran Soldiers and Sailors of Ohio Held at Newark, July 22, 1878 by Charles D. Miller Pdf

Author : Lee Strong
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945462092

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A Soldier of Poloda by Lee Strong Pdf

Like fellow Earthman, Tangor from the story Beyond the Farthest Star, American OSS officer Thomas Randolph is mysteriously teleported to a foreign planet where he lands in the center of a 100-year war that mirrors the Allied Powers' struggle against Adolph Hitler's Third Reich. Will Tomas, using his OSS skills, be able to devise a plan to escape with the beautiful Unisan prisoner, Loris Kiri, that will allow them to join her countrymen in their struggle against the Kapars? American novelist, Edgar Rice Burroughs, debuted the world of Poloda in the pulp story Beyond the Farthest Star in 1940. Author Lee Strong created this second adventure on the planet Poloda, which lies beyond the Globular Cluster NGC 7006 - 450,000 light years away from earth.

Author : Thomas Hill Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Philosophy, Modern
ISBN : UCAL:B3925440

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Works of Thomas Hill Green: Philosophical works by Thomas Hill Green Pdf

Author : Worcestershire Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Worcester (Mass.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433081827648

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Bulletin of the Worcester Society of Antiquity by Worcestershire Historical Society Pdf

Author : Stephen Lynn King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Bowling Green (Ky.)
ISBN : WISC:89066442799

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The Confederate Dead at Bowling Green, Kentucky by Stephen Lynn King Pdf