The last deployment how a gay, hammer-swinging twentysomething survived a year in Iraq
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Madison, Wisconsin
The University of Wisconsin Press
2011, [2011]©2011
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Series: | Living out : gay and lesbian autobiographies
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Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | Annotation "In 2003, after serving five and a half years as a carpenter in a North Dakota National Guard engineer unit, Bronson Lemer was ready to leave the military behind. But six months short of completing his commitment to the army, Lemer was deployed on a yearlong tour of duty to Iraq. Leaving college life behind in the Midwest, he yearns for a lost love and quietly dreams of a future as an openly gay man outside the military. He discovers that his father's lifelong example of silent strength has taught him much about being a man, and these lessons help him survive in a war zone and to conceal his sexuality, as he is required to do by the U.S. military. The Last Deployment is a moving, provocative chronicle of one soldier's struggle to reconcile military brotherhood with self-acceptance"--Publisher's description |
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Physical Description: | viii, 223 pages |
ISBN: | 9780299282141 6613134422 9786613134424 0299282147 |