War Comes Home Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans

Name: War Comes Home Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans
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ISBN: 9780520266049

ISBN-10: 0520266048

ISBN-13: 9780520266049

Edition: 2009

Authors: Aaron Glantz

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"The War Comes Home "is the first book to systematically document the U.S. government's neglect of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Aaron Glantz, who reported extensively from Iraq during the first three years of this war and has been reporting on the plight of veterans ever since, levels a devastating indictment against the Bush administration for its bald neglect of soldiers and its disingenuous reneging on their benefits. Glantz interviewed more than one hundred recent war veterans, and here he intersperses their haunting first-person accounts with investigations into specific concerns, such as the scandal at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. This timely book does more…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



List of Resource Boxes


Preface: Returning Home from Iraq


Acknowledgments



Coming Home



A Soldier Comes Home 3



Trying to Adjust 16



A Different Kind of Casualty 28



Fighting The Pentagon



The Scandal at Walter Reed 49



Coming Together 61



Education 69



Drugs, Crime, and Losing Your Benefits 86



Losing Your Benefits--Personality Disorder 95



Fighting The VA



Meet the Bureaucracy 105



Didn't Prepare to Treat the Wounded 118



More Bureaucracy 129



The Downward Spiral


Drugs, Crime, Homelessness, And Suicide



Crime 143



Homeless on the Streets of America 156



Suicide 167



Suicide after the War 176



Fighting Back



A History of Neglect 193



Winning the Battle at Home 208


Postscript: The War Inside 218


Afterword 227


Notes 229


Index