Thank You Dad For Your Service

Author : Mat Best,Ross Patterson,Nils Parker
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524796501

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Thank You for My Service by Mat Best,Ross Patterson,Nils Parker Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The unapologetic, laugh-your-ass-off military memoir both vets and civilians have been waiting for, from a five-tour Army Ranger turned YouTube phenomenon and zealous advocate for veterans Members of the military’s special operations branches share a closely guarded secret: They love their jobs. They relish the opportunity to fight. They are thankful for it, even, and hopeful that maybe, possibly, they’ll also get to kill a bunch of bad guys while they’re at it. You don’t necessarily need to thank them for their service—the pleasure is all theirs. In this hilarious and personal memoir, readers ride shotgun alongside former Army Ranger and private military contractor and current social media phenomenon Mat Best, into the action and its aftermath, both abroad and at home. From surviving a skin infection in the swampy armpit of America (aka Columbus, Georgia) to kicking down doors on the outskirts of Ramadi, from blowing up a truck full of enemy combatants to witnessing the effects of a suicide bombing right in front of your face, Thank You for My Service gives readers who love America and love the good guys fresh insight into what it’s really like inside the minds of the men and women on the front lines. It’s also a sobering yet steadying glimpse at life for veterans after the fighting stops, when the enemy becomes self-doubt or despair and you begin to wonder why anyone should be thanking you for anything, least of all your service. How do you keep going when something you love turns you into somebody you hate? For veterans and their friends and families, Thank You for My Service will offer comfort, in the form of a million laughs, and counsel, as a blueprint for what to do after the war ends and the real fight begins. And for civilians, this is the insider account of military life you won’t find anywhere else, told with equal amounts of heart and balls. It’s Deadpool meets Captain America, except one went to business school and one went to therapy, and it’s anyone’s guess which is which.

Author : Kofi Annan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1099253195

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Thank You Dad For Your Service by Kofi Annan Pdf

Military Appreciation notebook journal diary A novelty design notebook for the men and women in uniform to write in, share their combat experience and stories, meditate and memorialize their thoughts whilst on deployment. An excellent gift to give to a wife, husband, brother, son and any loved one in the military

Author : Rob Kenney
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063075030

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Dad, How Do I? by Rob Kenney Pdf

“Like the YouTube channel, this is a touching yet informative guide for those seeking fatherly advice, or even a few good dad jokes.” — Library Journal

Author : David Finkel
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385680974

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Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel Pdf

No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, Finkel shadowed the men of the US 2-16 Infantry Battalion in Baghdad as they carried out the grueling fifteen-month "surge" that changed them all forever. Now Finkel has followed many of the same men as they've returned home and struggled to reintegrate - both into their family lives and into society at large. In the ironically titled Thank You for Your Service, Finkel writes with tremendous compassion not just about the soldiers but about their wives and children. Where do soldiers belong after their homecoming? Is it reasonable, or even possible, to expect them to rejoin their communities as if nothing has happened? And in moments of hardship, who can soldiers turn to if they feel alienated by the world they once lived in? These are the questions Finkel faces as he revisits the brave but shaken men of the 2-16. More than a work of journalism, Thank You for Your Service is an act of understanding -- shocking but always riveting, unflinching but deeply humane, it takes us inside the heads of those who must live the rest of their lives with the realities of war.

Author : Jen Malone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481402842

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At Your Service by Jen Malone Pdf

Chloe loves working as a junior concierge at an exclusive NYC hotel—but when three royal kids come to stay, her hospitality is put to the ultimate test! Chloe Turner has pretty much the BEST life. She gets to live in the super fancy Hotel St. Michele. New York City is her hometown. And her dad, Mitchell Turner, concierge extraordinaire, is teaching her all the secrets of the business so she can follow in his footsteps. After helping him out with a particularly difficult kid client, Chloe is appointed the official junior concierge, tending to the hotel’s smallest, though sometimes most demanding, guests. Her new position comes with tons of perks like cupcake parties, backstage passes to concerts, and even private fittings with the hippest clothing designers. But Chloe hasn’t faced her toughest challenge yet. When three young royals (including a real-life PRINCE!) come to stay, Chloe’s determined to prove once and for all just how good she is at her job. Except the trip is a total disaster—especially when the youngest royal disappears. Now it’s up to Chloe to save the day. Can she find the missing princess before it becomes international news?

Author : Anita Dennler Dahlby
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460267424

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A Journey To An End by Anita Dennler Dahlby Pdf

I never planned to be among the populous of adult children caring for their aging parents, but when circumstances as abrupt and unwelcome as a tsunami presented themselves, my elderly father came to live with my husband and me. Not only was our coveted retirement lifestyle interrupted, but I was catapulted into a three-year journey that included many a crisis, painful confrontations, encouraging reprieves, and a closure that can only be attributed to divine intervention. Dementia, cancer, and dependency all became facilitators in fostering an understanding and love of my father that finally gave me an inner peace I never thought possible. There are probably millions of stories. This one is mine.

Author : Martha E. Couch PhD
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480884137

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Smile More, Pray More by Martha E. Couch PhD Pdf

While growing up on a cotton farm in rural Texas, Martha Elaine Couch could never have predicted that one day, she would earn three degrees from Texas Tech University and travel to more than one hundred and ten countries. In a charming and uplifting memoir, Couch shares details of a life well lived that include anecdotes and thoughts about her parents and the rest of her family, her childhood in rural West Texas, her experiences working with youth and adult volunteers and as a professor, and her devoted faith in God as she journeyed away from her home to see the world. Included are Couch’s recollections about her exciting trip to the White House during George W. Bush’s tenure, seeing Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic flame in Atlanta in 1996, visiting Tiananmen Square and Mao’s Burial Tomb just a few months prior to the uprising, and surviving the emergency evacuation of a plane at the Cusco airport. Couch also shares journal entries from her mother’s diaries that reveal a fascinating look at life in rural Texas during another era. Smile More, Pray More details the life of a world traveler as she ventured away from her childhood in rural Texas and experienced more than she ever imagined.

Author : Kristin Gilpatrick
Publisher : Badger Books Inc.
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781932542400

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The Hero Next Door the Korean War Preview Edition by Kristin Gilpatrick Pdf

This book profiles some of the veterans who fought in Korea for the frozen rocky ground and mountain slopes as well as the ground along the 38th parallel until a cease fired end the fighting.

Author : Clint Nye
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781645755074

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Honor My Father by Clint Nye Pdf

Honor My Father is a true story of how college men came to the US Navy as reservists, instructed by the officers from Annapolis, and teamed together. It brings their many personal stories of interactions with my dad (Air Defense Commander), serving on two destroyers (USS Bancroft & USS Goodrich) with the naming of their actual crew members. My story honors these silent, humble heroes. Thirty Benson-class destroyers were built from 1938 to 1943 and were the most vulnerable in the sea, protecting the fleet. The officers and crews earned 174 Battle Star Citations, one Presidential Citation and two Navy Unit Commendations posthumously. The last section of my true story about Dad, Comedy of Adolescence; describes how as a new professor, working on his Ph.D. this writer entered his teenage years while the two of us moved from the city of Chicago to the small town of Athens, Ohio. After his war experiences, he experienced nothing like the big guns going off in his ear until the hard pounding drums from my new rock and roll band!

Author : Erich D. Hartung
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595523580

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In the Best of Company by Erich D. Hartung Pdf

In the Best of Company comprises of six short fictional stories that place everyday, ordinary people into the thickest of situations. The variety of stories ranges from Texas Rangers, Cowboys and Crooks in the old West to the chase of an international terrorist who threatens the world in modern times. You'll find yourself fighting off dinosaurs on island with highly trained U.S. Navy SEALs as well as helping an atheist trying to fight the contemplation of God while battling demons in a haunted house in New Jersey. Band with a team of U.S. Army Military Policemen and women fight an ongoing insurgency in Iraq while simultaneously putting their lives on the line for innocent Iraqi citizens. There are is a lot of this and more. The main reason for this book was to exemplify the good guys in this world. And regardless of popular opinion, good guys exist-and they fight a thankless job each and every day. This book is for the brave men and women who lay it all on the line for us, for each other and for those they are assigned to protect. May God bless them.

Author : Gary Keating
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781098027667

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Game On by Gary Keating Pdf

John and Gary Keating were a father-son basketball coaching combination, who spent their lives helping others on and off the court. Then came a new opponent: Parkinson's Disease. John had a fourteen-year battle with PD, one fought with faith strength, courage, determination and perseverance. His battle ended in July 2008, six months to the day later Gary was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's. Using the same attributes as his father, Gary has continued where he left off. There has been several times of adversity before and during these years. Highlights of those and how to get through these moments in one's life. This remake of his first book, father and son: A game and a battle with Parkinson's, hopefully will help others going through some of the same things and find their way through and to a better and happier quality of life.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216466792

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : United States
ISBN : UCBK:C097159114

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Military construction, veterans affairs, and related agencies appropriations for 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Government publications
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113737048

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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. President
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : HARVARD:32044124403403

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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States by United States. President Pdf

"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.