Standing By The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War

Name: Standing By The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War
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ISBN: 9780399163791

ISBN-10: 0399163794

ISBN-13: 9780399163791

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Authors: Alison Buckholtz, Amanda Owen

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More than two million U.S. service members have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan in the last decade. More and more of these veterans are writing about their wartime experience, but few military spouses have shared the truth about what it’s like when a loved one leaves for battle. Standing Byis Alison Buckholtz’s candid account of her family’s struggles during her husband’s eight-month deployment on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf during Operation Iraqi Freedom and a subsequent year-long deployment to Iraq. With insight and humor she describes trying to keep life as normal as possible for the couple’s two young children while transitioning into the unfamiliar – and at times…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 5.984
Language: English



Author's Note


Introduction



Workups



Shock and Awe



Who by Water



Gone Mom



Lost



The Provincial



Pippi



O'Dark-thirty



Flat Daddy



A Day of Mother



Cryptology



Starfish



Beautiful World



The Loved Dog



Tell Me Your Secrets



My Sweetest Friend



The Feast of Crispian



New Beginnings



Deployment



By the Waters of Babylon



American Trinity



The New Normal



"People in the Navy Kill People"



The Navy Wife



That Stupid Boat



Pancakes and Ice Cream



Rock Bottom



A Draft of the Heart



The Happy Family Photo



COWs and Other Mammals



Everyday Fantasies



"If It Were Easy, Anyone Could Do It"



Diving into the Wreck



"When Is It My Turn?"



Pippi



Counting Down



Homecoming



Magical Powers


Afterword


Reader's Guide


Resources


Acknowledgments


Selected Bibliography