Outside the wire: American soldiers' voices from Afghanistan
edited by Christine Dumaine Leche; foreword by Brian Turner
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
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- Summary:
- "A riveting collection of thirty-eight narratives by American soldiers serving in Afghanistan, Outside the Wire offers a powerful evocation of everyday life in a war zone. Christine Dumaine Leche -- a writing instructor who left her home and family to teach at Bagram Air Base as well as at Forward Operating Base Salerno, near the volatile Afghan-Pakistani border -- encouraged these deeply personal reflections, which demonstrate the power of writing to battle the most traumatic of experiences. The soldiers whose words fill this book often met for class with Leche under extreme circumstances and in challenging conditions, some having just returned from dangerous combat missions, others having spend the day in firefights, endured hours in the bitter cold of an open guard tower, or suffered a difficult phone conversation with a spouse back home. We all need witnesses to the narratives of our lives, writes Leche. Outside the Wire creates that opportunity for us as readers to bear witness to the men and women who carry the weight of war for us all."--Jacket.
- Table of Contents:
- Spring / SPC Chantal Ogaldez
- Deployment / SFC Billy Wallace
- Karbala, Iraq / SFC Billy Wallace
- How every soldier leaves / SGT Catherine Lorfils
- They were just kids / PFC Anonymous Female
- Meltdown / SGT Jarrell Robinson
- Sat phone black op / SGT Sean Moore
- Hell of a long day / SPC Karl Mulling
- Protection / Marie Mulling
- Our lives today / Marie Mulling
- Coincidence / PV2 Anonymous Female
- B-hut blues / SFC Michael Bramlett
- Bombed / SrA Michal Sakautzki
- The hardest good-bye / SGT Latayna Orama
- Routine mission / SGT Kevin Zimmerman
- A woman, a boxer / PVT Veneta White
- Little girl, run ... it's not safe here / SGT Jose Githens
- Death through a 9x scope / SGT Anonymous Male
- My great sadness / SGT Christopher Williams
- West ash street / SGT Michael Diggs
- Busted / SGT Jessie Evans
- Disappointment / SGT Jessie Evans
- More day / SGT Jessie Evans
- I would rather die in Afghanistan / SGT Elether Fareaux
- A moment of silence / PVT Emily Anderson
- Words unspoken / SPC J.J. Saldana
- Freedom / SSG Trina Priddy
- The big bang / SPC Anonymous Male
- He's gone / PVT Eneshia Myles
- Another day in paradise / SGT Benjamin Lowery
- Journal entries / A1C Nicolas Gonzalez
- Field of fire / SGT Jeffrey Lambert
- New parents day / TSGT Jonathon LeMaster
- Roses / SGT Josh Wyly
- Moving on / SGT Joseph Colvin
- Anna Maria / SGT Dan Yoke
- On the shoulders of dead men / SPC Andrew Stock
- The hate / SPC Andrew Stock
- Soldiers tell why writing classes in a war zone matter
- On teaching writing to soldiers and veterans
- Writing prompts
- List of abbreviations and military rank.
- Contributors:
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-139).
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Call Numbers:
- DS371.413 .O95 2013
- ISBNs:
- 9780813934112 (cloth, alk. paper)
0813934117 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780813934129 (e-book) [Invalid]
0813934125 (e-book) [Invalid] - Other Standard Numbers:
- [Unknown Type]: 40022179576
- Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2012044554
- OCLC Numbers:
- 818327345