Download For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice AudioBook Free
A celebration of the incredible courage, dedication, and sacrifice of this era of American veterans on the battlefield and their equally valuable contributions on the house front. Because so handful of us now serve in the military services, our men and women in uniform have become strangers to us. We stand up at athletic occurrences to honor them, but we scarcely know their true strategy. Here, Starbucks CEO and longtime veterans' advocate Howard Schultz and National Book Award finalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran of The Washington Post offer an enlightening, motivating corrective. The creators honor serves of unusual valor in Iraq and Afghanistan, including an Army sergeant who repeatedly runs by having a surprise of gunfire to save lots of the lives of his wounded comrades; two Marines who sacrifice their lives to prevent an oncoming pick up truck bomb and protect 33 of these brothers in biceps and triceps; a 60-year-old doctor who joins the Navy to honor his fallen boy. We also see how veterans make essential contributions after they return home, pulling on their leadership skills and commitment to service: ex - soldiers who help residents in rebuilding after natural disasters; a ex - infantry officer who trades in a Pentagon job to instruct in an inner-city area; a retired standard leading efforts to improve treatments for brain-injured troops; the spouse of an severely harmed soldier assisting young families in similar positions. These powerful, memorable stories demonstrate just how indebted our company is to people who protect us and what they have to offer our region when their military services service is performed.
