03081cam a2200361 4500 426237906 TxAuBib 20210527120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781635573756 1635573750 B07QRTYFKC Amazon d8acedcc-4d43-4415-ad87-b9ef3180c97f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4904237 OverDrive (Product ID) 4904237 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Edstrom, Erik. Un-American [Libby] : A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 10MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Politics. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>A manifesto about America's unchallenged war machine, from an</b> <b>Afghanistan veteran and</b> <b>new kind of military hero.</b><br /> Before engaging in war, Erik Edstrom asks us to imagine three, rarely imagined scenarios: First, imagine your own death. Second, imagine war from "the other side." Third: Imagine what might have been if the war had never been fought. Pursuing these realities through his own combat experience, Erik reaches the unavoidable conclusion about America at war. But that realization came too late-the damage had been done.<br /> Erik Edstrom grew up in suburban Massachusetts with an idealistic desire to make an impact, ultimately leading him to the gates of West Point. Five years later, he was deployed to Afghanistan as an infantry lieutenant. Throughout his military career, he confronted atrocities, buried his friends, wrestled with depression, and struggled with an understanding that the war he fought in, and the youth he traded to prepare for it, was in contribution to a bitter truth: The War on Terror is not just a tragedy, but a crime. The deeper tragedy is that our country lacks the courage and conviction to say so.<br /> <i><br /></i><i>Un-American</i> is a hybrid of social commentary and memoir that exposes how blind support for war exacerbates the problems it's intended to resolve, devastates the people allegedly being helped, and diverts assets from far larger threats like climate change. <i>Un-American</i> is a revolutionary act, offering a blueprint for redressing America's relationship with patriotism, the military, and military spending. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-05-27 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d8acedcc-4d43-4415-ad87-b9ef3180c97f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d8acedcc-4d43-4415-ad87-b9ef3180c97f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d8acedcc-4d43-4415-ad87-b9ef3180c97f&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXDRI