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Seriously Not All Right : Five Wars in Ten Years.
Title:
Seriously Not All Right : Five Wars in Ten Years.
Author:
Capps, Ron.
ISBN:
9781936182596
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (360 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Author's Note -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- Kosovo 1998-2000 -- My New Favorite Person -- Klaxon -- Yellow -- Istinic -- Podujevo -- Shqiptar -- Skopje -- The Duke of Dragobilje -- Malisevo -- Racak -- Celebratory Gunfire -- Central Africa 1995-1998/2000-2002 -- No Deed Goes Unpunished -- The Banyamulenge War -- Count the Feet -- Prostates -- Our Ndoki -- Afghanistan and Iraq 2002-2004 -- Hold the Javelinas: Bagram -- A Danger to Myself or Others -- Seriously Not All Right -- Here Be Monsters -- An Unruly Garden -- The Northern Alliance -- Darfur, 2004-2007 -- A Trick of the Geographers -- Three Mohammeds -- An Empty Auditorium -- Uncle Wiggily in Darfur -- All Things Being Equal -- The French Lieutenant's iPod -- The War at Home -- Who Will Apologize? -- Plan B -- Walking the Halls -- The Whole Megillah -- Writing My Way Home -- Epilogue: -- Forgive and Forget -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Permissions and Credits.
Abstract:
For more than a decade, Ron Capps, serving as both a senior military intelligence officer and as a Foreign Service officer for the U.S. Department of State, was witness to war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. From government atrocities in Kosovo, to the brutal cruelties perpetrated in several conflicts in central Africa, the wars in both Aghanistan and Iraq, and culminating in genocide in Darfur, Ron acted as an intelligence collector and reporter but was diplomatically restrained from taking preventative action in these conflicts. The cumulative effect of these experiences, combined with the helplessness of his role as an observer, propelled him into a deep depression and a long bout with PTSD, which nearly caused him to take his own life. Seriously Not All Right is a memoir that provides a unique perspective of a professional military officer and diplomat who suffered (and continues to suffer) from PTSD. His story, and that of his recovery and his newfound role as founder and teacher of the Veterans Writing Project, is an inspiration and a sobering reminder of the cost of all wars, particularly those that appeared in the media and to the general public as merely sidelines in the unfolding drama of world events.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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