Colin D. Halloran

Powerful collection. One of the damaging developments in America's depiction of war and the people who serve in them is the idea that the experience can be compartmentalized, that the soldier is somehow separate from the society from which we came, or that the experience of war is unique to all others, or that American humanity is somehow different. Halloran shows the connective tissue that ties war to the society that birthed it, and to the communities that pay the price for it. An important read.… (meer)