Book Review: A Sensitive Salute to the American Veteran
Why
PJ Dodge
Page Publishing, Inc.
The importance of positive and realistic
portraits of military veterans in our literature cannot be outlined enough in a
modern day of apathy and post-stress stereotypes. Not a day passes without a
news story or television show depicting the “crazed” veteran seeking vengeance
on a cruel world.
Hollywood, the worse purveyor of this warped description, should take heed of Dodge’s honest and hear breaking homage to military veterans often sidelined if not forgotten by a society that pays mere lip service to patriotism and still treats the flag no different than a dish rag.
“Why” is a needed book exploring the lives of the disrupted, damaged but dignified veterans struggling to make it back home to resume a functional life. One has to wonder what is the greater heroism — surviving battles of bullets and bombs or surviving a society blind to respect and deaf to the call of something greater than themselves?
Hollywood, the worse purveyor of this warped description, should take heed of Dodge’s honest and hear breaking homage to military veterans often sidelined if not forgotten by a society that pays mere lip service to patriotism and still treats the flag no different than a dish rag.
“Why” is a needed book exploring the lives of the disrupted, damaged but dignified veterans struggling to make it back home to resume a functional life. One has to wonder what is the greater heroism — surviving battles of bullets and bombs or surviving a society blind to respect and deaf to the call of something greater than themselves?
Read this book and start deciding for yourself.
Mark Antony Rossi
Writer / USAF Veteran
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Short Nonfiction