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Once a warrior how one veteran found a new mission closer to home

"The powerful story of one Marine who found healing and renewed purpose after returning from combat, for himself and tens of thousands of fellow veterans. When Marine sniper Jake Wood came home in 2009 from grueling tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, his country asked yet more of him: to compartmen...

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Main Author: Wood, Jake, 1983- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Sentinel, [2020]
Subjects:
Disaster relief.
Veterans > United States > Biography.
Philanthropists > United States > Biography.
Marines > United States > Biography.
Afghan War, 2001- > Personal narratives, American.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Personal narratives, American.
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Crossing the Rubicon
  • Moments and decisions
  • Poof. That's the sound they make
  • Red-embered Marlboro
  • The valley echoed
  • Everything is wrong
  • Life after war
  • We do chaos
  • Expectant
  • When the bagpipes end
  • Roll tide
  • Hurricane Sandy
  • Tornado alley
  • Typhoon Haiyan
  • Signature wounds
  • Five-hundred-year flood
  • Broken promises
  • We're going to wish we had boats
  • Clay would be proud
  • Epilogue.

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