"Saving Troy" is a compelling and unique chronicle of a year with professional firefighters and paramedics in a down-at-the-heels, rust-belt city. The author takes us not only inside the action but to the dramatic core of every call he re-creates for us -- so close you can almost hear the heart monitor's buzz.

Saving Troy: A Year with Firefighters and Paramedics in a Battered City

William B. Patrick

Hudson Whitman

Because so few Americans have served in the military since 9/11--or even know anyone who has--many look to the media for information about veterans and military service. Popular news outlets, however, traffic in tragedy and often paint those who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan with one of three broad brushes: as superhuman; as broken, disabled, and traumatized; or as dangerous, ticking time bombs. 
See Me for Who I Am aims to undermine these stereotypes. It brings together twenty young student veterans working to bridge the media-created gap that divides them from the American people they fought to protect. With thoughtfulness, humor, and honesty, they relive and relate their worst memories, illustrate shared experiences, explain to us the fulfillment of combat, and show us what going to war really entails. For veterans, these voices will ring familiar. For civilians, the stories open a view into a world few ever see and, in the process, affirm our common humanity.

See Me for Who I Am: Student Veterans' Stories of War and Coming Home

History

David Chrisinger - Editor

Brian Castner - Foreword

Matthew Hefti - Afterword

Americas

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