Looks like a good book.

Max Cleland: Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113506152

Foreword

An Open Letter to America's Veterans

America sends the flower of its youth abroad to fight its wars. Because of that, America's military is always staffed with the stoutest, finest,...

today was a harsh reminder of the reality of my deployment to iraq.

my phone rang - a number i did not recognize. initially i didn't answer, but after three missed calls from the same number, i called back. it was my previous brigade commander who now works at the pentagon. he just returned from a five-day visit to iraq, taking previous wounded warriors back to see how the country has transformed...

first, know that we are all alive and okay, he began - my first clue...