Thank You for Your Service Paperback 1250056020 9781250056023 David Finkel

from bcquinnsmom

If you've decided after reading about this book that it's too bleak, well, consider what the people in this book and others whose stories didn't make it into this book are going through. Or their wives, who married a guy, said goodbye to him as he deployed, and found that the man who came back ho...

from ozzer

This is an extremely hard book to read because it documents the problems faced by several soldiers and their families following the Iraq war. Most have diagnoses of PTSD, several have attempted suicide, some have succeeded. Some perished in the war and the book documents the struggles of their fa...

from Citizenjoyce

Thank You For Your Service is about veterans, PTSD, TBI, grieving, family interactions, treatment, red tape and lots of suicide and the attempts to stop it. Written by David Finkel, a journalist who was imbedded with troops in Iraq, it contains the personal stories of veterans and their spouses a...

from Suzieqkc

Heart-wrenching to read. This author spent time with several vets (and their families) from the recent Middle East wars chronicling their adjustment (or not) back into society after returning home from war.. This book is so helpful because it gives the public a realistic picture of what male and ...

from jhoaglin

David Finkel is a reporter who has no detachment from his subject matter; he was one of the journalists who was allowed to be embedded with an infantry battalion in Iraq, and wrote his first book about that experience. For this book he maintains that same intimacy with his subjects, as he writes ...