Download or read book Dog Tags written by Ginger Cucolo and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 100 year anniversary of the official use of American military personal identity tags, affectionately known as Dog Tags, recently passed without fanfare. We are currently in a war where the Dog Tag is once again a highly personal item to warriors in every service and their families. Each Dog Tag carries its own human interest story. Receiving it, hanging it around the neck, and feeling it is at once a silent statement of commitment. The tag itself individualizes the human being who wears it within a huge and faceless organization. The armed forces demand obedience, commitment, and duty to a higher cause, but the Dog Tag which hangs privately within their shirts, close to their chests, becomes a part of them. In a way it brings comfort to that fear of every Soldier facing death: I do not want to be forgotten; I will not be unknown. Understanding and sharing the history of Dog Tags, the stories shared with me from personal accounts, the cultural impact on merchandising, and the future within our Armed Services.
Download or read book Strange Dogs written by James S. A. Corey and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey's NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Strange Dogs follows a family of colonists on Laconia where a new generation of humanity struggles with the profound changes that come with making a home on an alien world. Now a Prime Original series. This story will be available in the complete Expanse story collection, Memory’s Legion. HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES Like many before them, Cara and her family ventured through the gates as scientists and researchers, driven to carve out a new life and uncover the endless possibilities of the unexplored alien worlds now within reach. But soon the soldiers followed and under this new order Cara makes a discovery that will change everything. The Expanse Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath Leviathan Falls Memory's Legion The Expanse Short Fiction Drive The Butcher of Anderson Station Gods of Risk The Churn The Vital Abyss Strange Dogs Auberon The Sins of Our Fathers
Download or read book Tag written by Barry Heard and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a lad in the high country of eastern Victoria, Tag Wardell shows an extraordinary gift with animals - his rapport with his horse becomes the talk of the district. 1914 brings war and Tag and his mates join the Light Horse regiment. On the convoy to Egypt, he is singled out to help the distressed horses. Later, on leave in Cairo he meets Jill, a nurse, but their brief romance is cut short as Gallipoli looms. Tag's life spirals into one of survival in the day-to-day madness of the trenches - back cover.
Download or read book Tagged by Dead Dogs written by Anita Bell and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Kirby MacLeod, fourteen years old and a magnet for trouble. She’s on a mission to to earn her independence – and a whole heap of money – before she leaves high school. She knows how, she knows where. She just has to figure out how to do it before someone else beats her to it. The Great Southern Pacific Express is one of Australia’s few remaining trains to avoid tagging by graffiti artists. And it’s sitting in Kirby’s town that night, parked in a train stabling area. Underground magazines have placed a bounty of nearly half a million dollars on its hide for the tagger who can prove they got to it first. Kirby thinks she has a plan that will win her the bounty and still leave the train in pristine condition. But first she has to get past the guards, the dogs, the barbed wire and the high-tech security cameras ... not to mention any real graffiti vandals who might be after the bounty too.
Download or read book Dog Tags written by F. J. Bradley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carried to the Wall written by Kristin Ann Hass and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary Americans to come to terms with a multitude of unnamed losses as well as to take part in the ongoing debate of how this war should be remembered. Hass explores the restless memory of the Vietnam War and an American public still grappling with its commemoration. In doing so it considers the ways Americans have struggled to renegotiate the meanings of national identity, patriotism, community, and the place of the soldier, in the aftermath of a war that ruptured the ways in which all of these things have been traditionally defined. Hass contextualizes her study of this phenomenon within the history of American funerary traditions (in particular non-Anglo traditions in which material offerings are common), the history of war memorials, and the changing symbolic meaning of war. Her evocative analysis of the site itself illustrates and enriches her larger theses regarding the creation of public memory and the problem of remembering war and the resulting causalities—in this case not only 58,000 soldiers, but also conceptions of masculinity, patriotism, and working-class pride and idealism.
Download or read book Soldier Dead written by Michael Sledge and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to members of the United States Armed Forces after they die? Why do soldiers endanger their lives to recover the remains of their comrades? Why does the military spend enormous resources and risk further fatalities to recover the bodies of the fallen, even decades after the cessation of hostilities? Soldier Dead is the first book to fully address the complicated physical, social, religious, economic, and political issues concerning the remains of men and women who die while serving their country. In doing so, Michael Sledge reveals the meanings of the war dead for families, soldiers, and the nation as a whole. Why does recovering the remains of servicepeople matter? Soldier Dead examines this question and provides a thorough analysis of the processes of recovery, identification, return, burial, and remembrance of the dead. Sledge traces the ways in which the handling of our Soldier Dead has evolved over time and how these changes have reflected not only advances in technology and capabilities but also the shifting attitudes of the public, government, and military. He also considers the emotional stress experienced by those who handle the dead; the continuing efforts to retrieve bodies from Korea and elsewhere; and how unresolved issues regarding the treatment of enemy dead continue to affect U.S. foreign relations. Skillfully incorporating excerpts from interviews, personal correspondence and diaries, military records, and journalistic accounts-as well as never-before-published photographs and his own reflections-Michael Sledge presents a clear, concise, and compassionate story about what the dead mean to the living. Throughout Soldier Dead, the voices of the fallen are heard, as are those of family members and military personnel responsible for the dead before final disposition. At times disturbing and at other times encouraging, they are always powerful as they speak of danger, duty, courage, commitment, and care.
Download or read book Dog Tags written by Stephen Becker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the killing fields of World War II to a Chinese POW camp during the Korean War, this mesmerizing novel is a tribute to the legacy of the Greatest Generation Separated from his fellow American soldiers, Benny Beer walks alone on a frozen plain in Germany during World War II. Lost and afraid, he seeks shelter in an abandoned tavern and encounters a victim of the Holocaust. Benny tries to save the suffering man’s life, but never knows if he succeeds—he wakes up in a hospital bed, wounded and missing his dog tags, with no memory of how he got there. Sent back to Brooklyn with a limp and a Purple Heart, Benny falls in love, gets married, and becomes a doctor—not necessarily in that order—but his life is just beginning when he is called to serve his country once more. In Korea, he is captured and sent to a Chinese prison camp, where for two and a half long years he practices the fine art of self-preservation and fights the cruelty and indifference of his captors with compassion, care, and a fierce sense of humor. Poignant, witty, and authentic, Dog Tags is the story of an ordinary man in extraordinary times, of an awkward Jewish boy who grows up to become an American hero. Soldier, doctor, lover—Benny Beer is one of the most captivating protagonists in twentieth-century literature.
Download or read book The Dog Who Spoke with Gods written by Diane Jessup and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elizabeth, a young pre-med. student happens upon Damien, a dog being used in laboratory research on her campus, she has no way of knowing how drastically her life - and her beliefs - will be changed. Without meaning to, she slowly becomes drawn into the dog's fate and is soon torn between the love and respect she has come to feel for Damien and the sense of loyalty and obligation she feels for the medical profession as well as her father and grandfather, both cardiac surgeons. With an uncanny ability to write convincingly about life from the point of view of a canine, Diane Jessup tells an extraordinary story of friendship and loyalty in The Dog Who Spoke with Gods. Few writers have ever shown the world of man's closest friend as clearly and movingly. For anyone who has ever loved a dog this is a must-read.
Download or read book Revisiting Vietnam written by Julia Bleakney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the memorializing practices of American veterans of the Vietnam War at several of the most significant contemporary sites of memory in the United States and Vietnam. These sites include veterans' memoirs, museum exhibits, replicas of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and tourism to Vietnam. Because war memorializing has, since the late 1960s, shifted focus from national soul searching to personal identity and recovery, I emphasize how contemporary narratives of the war, shaped more by memory than by history, often are detached from the specific history of the war and its political controversies. Drawing on trauma and cultural memory scholarship, as well as empirical data gathered during field research in the U.S. and Vietnam, the author examines how veterans' memorializing practices have become increasingly individualized, commodified, and conservative since the early 1980s.
Download or read book Dog Tags Yapping written by Morton D. Elevitch and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morton Elevitch chronicles the experiences he had while serving as a GI during World War II.
Download or read book Dog Tags Wedding Bands written by Joe Rosato and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dog Tags & Wedding Bands By: Joe Rosato Joe Rosato is an author with much information and experience in the military. Rosato has been enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as a Helmsman and Lee Helmsman in the Vietnam War. He is also currently a volunteer, tour guide and liaison to the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Foundation. He also volunteered at the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Rosato actively speaks and volunteers at veteran groups. Rosato is a member of the group Vietnam Veterans of America, the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Rosato’s story shows the real-life traumatic experiences that happened to many innocent civilians during the Vietnam War. This page-turning story provides humor, romance and mystery all into one thrilling plot. With relatable and endearing characters, this tale that intertwines with the past and present will leave the reader happy and hopeful.
Download or read book Medicine Bags and Dog Tags written by Al Carroll and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As far back as colonial times, Native individuals and communities have fought alongside European and American soldiers against common enemies. Medicine Bags and Dog Tags is the story of these Native men and women whose military service has defended ancient homelands, perpetuated longstanding warrior traditions, and promoted tribal survival and sovereignty.
Download or read book Divided We Fall Dog Tags 4 written by C. Alexander London and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man's best friend goes to war. LOYALTY ABOVE ALL ELSE.Andrew believes in the importance of loyalty. He is loyal to his family. He is loyal to his hound dog, Dash. And he is loyal to his country, the Confederate States of America.Although he's too young to join the Confederate Army, Andrew is welcomed into the Home Guard, a group of men who track down deserters and runaways. He and Dash make a great team. But hunting people is very different from hunting raccoons. And soon Andrew's loyalty will be tested like never before.Dog Tags is a series of stand-alone books, each exploring the bond between soldier and dog in times of war.
Download or read book Dog Tags written by David Rosenfelt and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "riveting" legal thriller, a German Shepherd police dog witnesses a murder -- and if his owner, an Iraq war vet and former cop-turned-thief, is convicted of the crime, the dog could be put down (Publishers Weekly). Few rival Andy Carpenter's affection for dogs, and he decides to represent the poor canine. As Andy struggles to convince a judge that this dog should be set free, he discovers that the dog and his owner have become involved unwittingly in a case of much greater proportions than the one they've been charged with. Andy will have to call upon the unique abilities of this ex-police dog to help solve the crime and prevent a catastrophic event from taking place.
Download or read book Dog Tags written by Alexandra Landon and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Ryan Benton is a successful sales representative working for ViaStem Biotechnology Corporation, a maverick in bringing the first FDA-approved human embryonic stem-cell cloning procedure to market to defeat deadly, crippling diseases. She is madly in love with her husband, Lieutenant Commander Stephen Lance Benton of Navy SEAL Team One, based in Coronado, California. Sarah's dream life in gorgeous San Diego, California is shattered following a second terrorist attack on American soil and the tragic news of Stephen's disappearance in Afghanistan during his final deployment before his retirement from the U.S. Navy. With no viable answers from the government on the circumstances of Stephen's disappearance, Sarah teams with Stephen's closest comrade, Retired Captain Warren McNary, to discover what really happened in the mountains of Afghanistan. Sarah grows restless with their slow progress and mounting questionable events, so she begins her own investigation and uncovers a major conspriacy. Through her novice actions, Sarah is plunged into deceit and danger. Fight or flight is her natural instinctive response to danger. Rather than run, Sarah chooses to fight the most powerful man in America to let the world know the truth. Join Sarah in her death-defying mission to bring about justice for the love of her life.
Download or read book Triumph of The Walking Dead written by James Lowder and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All zombies are created equal. All zombie stories are not. From its humble beginnings as an indie comic book, The Walking Dead has become a pop culture juggernaut boasting New York Times–bestselling trade paperbacks, a hit television series, and enough fans to successfully take on any zombie uprising. Triumph of The Walking Dead explores the intriguing characters, stunning plot twists, and spectacular violence that make Robert Kirkman's epic the most famous work of the Zombie Renaissance. The Walking Dead novels' co-author Jay Bonansinga provides the inside story on translating the comics into prose; New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry takes on the notion of leadership (especially Rick Grimes') during the zombie apocalypse; Harvard professor Steven Schlozman dissects the disturbing role of science in the television series; and more. Triumph of The Walking Dead features a foreword by horror legend Joe R. Lansdale.
