The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier
Steven Moore, "The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier "
English | ISBN: 0820355666 | 2019 | 208 pages | EPUB | 298 KB
English | ISBN: 0820355666 | 2019 | 208 pages | EPUB | 298 KB
The war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories―between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other, and between soldiers and civilians, trying to explain what is going on―while also denying a lot of the context that is important for the telling of that story. The landscape is so mountainous and isolating that one incident or anecdote might not fit into a bigger picture beyond itself. A patrol may have no effect on the one that comes next. The war has ground itself into such a stasis that it is hard to see movement or plot. Yet we’re there. We have to say something. We have to be accountable, even though the circumstances complicate the ability to talk about it while simultaneously creating a constant yearning to do so.
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