Author: Ardith Cecil Dressler Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781731146656 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 374
Book Description
This is the story of the life and death of Army Sergeant Shawn Dressler as written by Shawn's father. The story of Shawn begins with an overview of the author's life before Shawn's birth. The author has lived an exciting life that has included an eight-year enlistment in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear submarine crewman and nuclear instructor for the U.S. Navy. As a Vietnam era veteran (1968-1976), the author imparts his experiences and insights into emphasizing aspects of Shawn's Army career in a time of war.Shawn's life before enlisting into the Army is told in brief segments in a manner that reveals his relationship with his parents, his personal character, and his interests. The author details Shawn's experiences in the Army both inside and outside of war zones. The thoughts and worries of the author and his wife for the safety of their son are expressed throughout this book. The author included in his story a generous number of unedited e-mails that Shawn had sent home. Those brief messages to his parents are revealing as they express the thoughts and concerns of a young combat soldier from the battlefield. Shawn's love for his mother is evident as he attempts to calm her fears for his safety. Shawn's e-mails also reflect the time pressure in which he experienced when writing home.In an effort to learn more about the people whom Shawn was fighting, his father educated himself on the people and politics of the region. The author began reading the English version of the Al Jazeera web site. On that site he frequently observed anti-American terrorist propaganda. That propaganda included videos of American soldiers being killed and wounded by roadside bombs and suicide bombers. Watching that film footage proved particularly hard to take for the author. Shawn made a telephone call to his dad and mom minutes before his death. The reader is brought into that conversation and the ironies surrounding the content of that telephone conversation.The author describes a paranormal experience that occurred to him at or near the time of Shawn's death. A worried telephone call by Shawn's wife on the evening of Shawn's death confirmed, for the author, that his premonition had been horrifically correct.The author writes of the bureaucratic bumbling by the US Army that began with Shawn's death notification and continued through his burial. Mr. Dressler re-searched Army protocol and procedure for handling death notifications and provided contrast to what should have happened to what actually occurred. Difficulties encountered due to the incompetence of one airline and the insensitivity and political correctness of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) generated many tears for the Dressler family. Over time, Shawn's remains were returned to the author's family. His homecoming service was magnificent. Shawn's brothers of the First Infantry Division, Eighteenth Infantry Regiment, Alpha Company participated in Shawn's Ceremony. Shawn was finally home and among brothers. The author began to write his book to preserve Shawn's memory for future generations of family members. A secondary reason for writing his book was to provide himself a means of introspection into Shawn's life and death. Mr. Dressler had issues to resolve concerning Shawn's death; he needed closure. The author was tormented that perhaps he had missed opportunities to steer his son down a path where he would have outlived his father. Once the author began to write this book, he came to believe that other parents might find relief in his book. Mr. Dressler changed his writing style to include the general population.The singular dark and pointed question for the author was; "Had he raised his son to become cannon fodder?"
Author: United States. Congress Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 1204
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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: David Hackett Fischer Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199743698 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 972
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Author: Meghan O'Rourke Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300257368 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 233
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Selections from the "Pandemic Files" published by The Yale Review, the preeminent journal of literature and ideas “If only our response to the pandemic on other fronts could have been as speedy and potent as this literary one.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review In beautifully written and powerfully thought prose, A World Out of Reach offers a crucial record of COVID-19 and the cataclysmic spring of 2020—a record for us and for posterity—in the arresting voices of poets, essayists, scholars, and health care workers. Ranging from matters of policy and social justice to ancient history and personal stories of living under lockdown, this vivid compilation from The Yale Review presents a first draft of one of the most tumultuous periods in recent history. Contributors: Katie Kitamura • Laura Kolbe • Nitin Ahuja • Rena Xu • Alicia Christoff • Miranda Featherstone • Maya C. Popa • Major Jackson • John Witt • Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz • Joan Naviyuk Kane • Nell Freudenberger • Briallen Hopper • Brandon Shimoda • Yusef Komunyakaa • Laren McClung • Eric O’Keefe-Krebs • Sean Lynch • Millicent Marcus • Meghana Mysore • Rachel Jamison Webster • Emily Ziff Griffin • Rowan Ricardo Philips • Kathryn Lofton • Monica Ferrell • Russell Morse • Randi Hutter Epstein • Noreen Khawaja • Victoria Chang • Joyelle McSweeney • Khameer Kidia • Emily Greenwood • Elisa Gabbert • Emily Bernard • Hafizah Geter • Emily Gogolak • Roger Reeves
Author: J. Sidlow Baxter Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0310871395 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 1846
Book Description
Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.
Author: Paul Kingsnorth Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN: 1555979726 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 208
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A provocative and urgent essay collection that asks how we can live with hope in “an age of ecocide” Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist—an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on “sustainability” rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced. He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate change. Full of grief and fury as well as passionate, lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth’s thinking. In them he articulates a new vision that he calls “dark ecology,” which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us, and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. This iconoclastic, fearless, and ultimately hopeful book, which includes the much-discussed “Uncivilization” manifesto, asks hard questions about how we’ve lived and how we should live.
Author: Breanne Robertson Publisher: ISBN: 9781732003071 Category : Flags Languages : en Pages : 371
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"Investigating Iwo encourages us to explore the connection between American visual culture and World War II, particularly how the image inspired Marines, servicemembers, and civilians to carry on with the war and to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure victory over the Axis Powers. Chapters shed light on the processes through which history becomes memory and gains meaning over time. The contributors ask only that we be willing to take a closer look, to remain open to new perspectives that can deepen our understanding of familiar topics related to the flag raising, including Rosenthal's famous picture, that continue to mean so much to us today"--
Author: Chai JiDan Publisher: Funstory ISBN: 1649350759 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 739
Book Description
He smiled coldly, as if he was surrounded by evil spirits. Anyone who heard this would shudder in fear. "Who gave you this scar on your chest?" "What does it have to do with you?" "What if I want to pursue the matter?" "Hmph ..." If you want to pursue this Young Master's matter, you have to ... Unless you have two legs! Eh? You really have two legs! " His eyes were wide open as he pretended to be surprised. Then, he loudly refuted: "Mosquitoes... It really is a mosquito bite. Ahhh, don't come over, save me ... "
Author: Chris Lowney Publisher: Loyola Press ISBN: 0829429824 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
Leadership Principles for Lasting Success Leadership makes great companies, but few of us truly understand how to turn ourselves and others into great leaders. One company—the Jesuits—pioneered a unique formula for molding leaders and in the process built one of history’s most successful companies.In this groundbreaking book, Chris Lowney reveals the leadership principles that have guided the Jesuits for more than 450 years: self-awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism. Lowney shows how these same principles can make each of us a dynamic leader in the twenty-first century.
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