Download or read book Military Brats written by Mary Edwards Wertsch and published by Brightwell Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military brats' childhoods are often scarred by alcoholism, abuse, and an ever-present threat of a parent's loss to war. This eye-opening, sometimes shocking exploration tells what life is really like for the stepchildren of Uncle Sam. A new recovery group, Adult Children of Military Personnel, Inc., has been formed as a direct result of this book's publication.
Download or read book War Brats written by Daniel G. Buff and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in the collective dystopian empire known as Paragonia, Jade rises through the ranks to become the premier spy and assassin who trains others to blindly serve their leader's whims without question. Paragonia is a world empire that thrives on strength and total control. There is no tolerance for independent thought or even the desire for basic human dignity through religion, philosophy, and close family ties. All are outlawed, and those who show this weakness are exploited in highly elaborate public executions. But Jade has a secret. She knows Paragonia's dictator, Owen Fireside, is responsible for her parents' murder. And it is this secret that inoculates her from Paragonia's propaganda and mind-control methods. As Jade plans to murder Fireside in retribution, she isn't aware there are others who also know about her secret. Leaders of the Hostile resistance have been watching her for many years, hoping to turn her and use her as a spy against Paragonia. Their plans include not only overthrowing Fireside's regime, but also destroying the Paragon elites, a highly organized network of families who keep humanity in a machine-like existence for their own purposes. But those of the Paragon trust no one—not even their premier spy and assassin. Will Jade be caught in their web of deception to be used as a weapon of evil instead of a weapon for good? This thought-provoking thriller will keep you engrossed as the deceptive strategies of evil doers try to erase anything that gets in their way.
Download or read book BRAT and the Kids of Warriors written by Michael Joseph Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack McMasters and his two sisters are forced to leave behind every friend they have when they are once again moved halfway around the world -- this time to post-WWII Germany. Their father is a tank commander defending against 3,000 enemy tanks -- pointed directly at them. Theirs is a life of adventure, spies, making new friends, and dealing with their own set of enemies . . . always requiring serious ingenuity if these military brats are to survive this war zone.
Download or read book Brats written by Mary R. Truscott and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult children of military personnel describe their growing up in a military family and how it affects their lives today.
Download or read book Legacies written by F. Paul Wilson and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repairman Jack isn't your average appliance repairman--he fixes situations for people, often risking his own life. Jack has no last name, no social security number, works only for cash, and has no qualms when it comes to seeing that the job gets done. Dr. Alicia Clayton, a pediatrician who treats children with AIDS, is full of secrets, and she has just inherited a house that holds another. Haunted by painful memories, Alicia wants the house destroyed--but somehow everyone she enlists to help ends up violently killed. The house holds a powerful secret, and Alicia's charmless brother Thomas seems willing to do anything to get his hands on that secret himself. But not if Repairman Jack can find it first! Legacies is the first thrilling novel in the Repairman Jack series from bestselling author F. Paul Wilson At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Brat Life written by Caren J. Town and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With hundreds of thousands of current and former military brats in the United States, their lives as children of service members are surprisingly little documented. Reading about the experiences of fellow brats can help these children of warriors understand both themselves and the unique world in which they were raised. Learning of the challenges that these children face will also help the general population consider how to honor and to help those whose lives were shaped by the military without volunteering or being drafted. This book explores the military brat experience as reflected in novels intended for adults, adolescent fiction, autobiographies and biographies, and highlights the common elements: frequent moves, the ever-present sense of danger, the potential loss of the service member, and isolation from the larger civilian world. By understanding the lives of brats, we can better understand the very real costs--beyond the lives of service members themselves--that families bear in the name of our collective freedom and security.
Download or read book Beer Brats and Baseball written by Jim Merkel and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the often-serious, sometimes funny, and truly amazing story of Germans in the Gateway City from the arrival of the first German priest right after the city's founding to the present.
Download or read book Pimps Whores and Welfare Brats written by Star Parker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Parker tells the inspirational story of how she turned her life around from a world of drugs, crime, and welfare to success as an entrepreneur, founder of the Coalition on Urban Affairs, and spokesperson for African-American conservatives. Reprint.
Download or read book Military Brats and Other Global Nomads written by Morten G. Ender and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, American political, military, corporate, and humanitarian responsibilities abroad expanded greatly. With families in tow, government officials, military service personnel, business executives, and missionaries began to travel and live, in increasing numbers, outside of their home country. Other nations followed suit. Ender examines this legacy of the late 20th century and analyzes the social, psychological, and historical imprints on people who came of age in these service organization families. Such international experiences impose specific demands on employees, their spouses and their children. These include relocation, risk of death or injury, family separation, and social controls on behavior. This collection contains thirteen essays by researchers studying children, adolescents, youth, and adults in a service organization family context, including the military, the State Department, international educators, and non-governmental organizations. The studies integrate research from sociology, psychology, child and adolescent development, family studies, and communications.
Download or read book Small Stories of War written by Barbara Lorenzkowski and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet this hopeful vision was marred by the harsh realities of migration, displacement, and armed conflict. Small Stories of War grapples with the meanings and memories of childhood and wartime by asking new questions about lived experience. Spanning the First World War to the early twenty-first century and featuring chapters about Canada, Australia, Germany, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and northern Uganda, this volume asks how young people encountered and responded to armed conflict. How did children, youth, and their families make sense of war in the violent twentieth century? How have they shared their stories and experiences of violence and trauma? Analyzing a broad range of sources including family letters, oral history, and children’s artwork, contributors offer important insights into the production of historical knowledge with and about young people. Engaging with cutting-edge debates about emotions, temporality, space, and young people as political actors, Small Stories of War offers compelling new research and an interpretive toolkit that will benefit scholars from across the social sciences and humanities.
Download or read book Counseling Military Families written by Lynn K. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the military really work? What issues are constants for military families, and what special stresses do they face? Counseling Military Families provides the best available overview of military life, including demographic information and examples of military family issues. Chapters focus on vital issues such as the unique circumstances of reservists, career service personnel, spouses, and children, and present treatment models and targeted interventions tailored for use with military families. Counseling Military Families provides clinicians with the tools they need to make a difference in the lives of families in transition, including those who may have an ingrained resistance to asking for help and who may be available for counseling for a relatively short period of time.
Download or read book Army Brat written by Laura Gutman and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of Army brats have always been a core component of the US military. Scarcely described until now, Army Brat: World War II is an essential account that fills a major gap in history. Author Laura Thurston Gutman lived deeply embedded within the US Armed Forces from the United States’ earliest entry into World War II through the Vietnam era. Chronicling pivotal events during those years, this historical autobiography describes a life inextricably intertwined with the military. From her birth at West Point’s hospital, to her cobbled-together education, and witnessing her father’s many military honors, Laura’s childhood was one of intense awareness of the danger her father faced and the courage her mother displayed. As she grew older, she lurked in the background during long evenings of intense discussions of policy. Through the constant upheaval and disruption so familiar to military families, Laura developed a radical independence, a determination to gain control over her life, and a fearless approach to her own education. Chronicling the experiences of a strong military family as they witness and participate in the unfolding of history in a dangerous and challenging world, Army Brat identifies consequential insights into the critical importance of a strong religious foundation; an educational system dedicated to core concepts of nation and loyalty; and leadership that prioritizes sovereignty, national defense, and military support.
Download or read book Tumbleweed Forts written by Frank Warner and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like any good soldier's son, Frank was an adaptable youngster. He moved with his family from fort to fort, country to country, accepted each change, and was ready to move again. In 1960, his father was ordered to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The desert garrison was the fifth Army post of Frank's childhood, and the first post he never wanted to leave. Here at age ten, he was best friends with Flavio, who saved his life from deep waters and helped him hunt for Huachuca Canyon gold. Here, too, Frank took a liking to Emily, a captain's daughter who chased dust devils and spelled well. In Arizona, Frank's father tested and improved the Army's early drones, and his mother worked hard to keep the family happy, healthy, and together. For Frank and his three brothers, the friendships and vast spaces of Fort Huachuca made it a perfect playground. Then in 1963, when his father received orders for Vietnam and told the family it was time to move again, Frank was so alarmed he wrote President Kennedy to ask that the orders be canceled. Tumbleweed Forts celebrates a youngster's joy in a desert full of life. It's a story about family, friendships, life's surprises, and all those special places that find a home in our hearts.
Download or read book Writing Out of Limbo written by Nina Sichel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing borders and boundaries, countries and cultures, they are the children of the military, diplomatic corps, international business, education and missions communities. They are called Third Culture Kids or Global Nomads, and the many benefits of their lifestyle – expanded worldview, multiplicity of languages, tolerance for difference – are often mitigated by recurring losses – of relationships, of stability, of permanent roots. They are part of an accelerating demographic that is only recently coming into visibility. In this groundbreaking collection, writers from around the world address issues of language acquisition and identity formation, childhood mobility and adaptation, memory and grief, and the artist’s struggle to articulate the experience of growing up global. And, woven like a thread through the entire collection, runs the individual’s search for belonging and a place called “home.” This book provides a major leap in understanding what it’s like to grow up among worlds. It is invaluable reading for the new global age.
Download or read book Uncle John s Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces written by Bathroom Readers' Institute and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army, Air Force, or Marine—read all about them in the latrine! Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and the Coast Guard—the patriotic folks at the Bathroom Readers Institute have stormed the proverbial beaches of Normandy and beyond to bring you this salute to the greatest force for good on planet Earth! Make your way through the ranks and read about the history, triumphs, trials, trivia, and humor of those who serve. At nearly 500 pages, this is the book you want by your side while you wait it out in the foxhole. Read about . . . * The Semper Fi story * A history of the draft * The real Private Ryan * Dog tags then and now * Medal of Honor winners * M*A*S*H: the true story * The original Flying Tiger * Beetle Bailey and other cartoon soldiers * What it takes to be in the Special Forces * Can you see me now? The story of camouflage * and much, much more!
Download or read book Eye Soar s Trials Tribulations Blessed Treasures written by David L. Slaughter II and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having been inspired by dreams, ideas, entertainment, history, fiction and non-fiction, and so much more in life, Eye Soars Trials... Tribulations... & Blessed Treasures is a culmination of poems that have been written over a number of years by David L. Slaughter II. As such, you will find poems that deal with military and war (whether on the broad spectrum or from an individual perspective), political stances, love of family, faith in God, dreams, fears and anxieties, as well as lighthearted poems that still possess a message in their own right. Of course, not all the poems contained within are based on what has inspired David, but also to inspire others to overcome their own demons, problems, self-esteem issues, concerns, etc. with the hope that the reader, whether reading those that have inspired or to inspire will gain a perspective for themselves to relate to. If we find relation in our own lives by the words of another, we also find we learn and grow.
Download or read book Imperial Delusions written by Carl Boggs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hard-hitting critique, Carl Boggs argues that the United States is dominated by a new militarism, one that has become more potent and menacing since 9/11. He skillfully explores the origins and development of this new militarism and show its devastating effects on American society.
