Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (797 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399562540 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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While the two men had different missions and experiences, their stories mingled, compared, and contrasted in Shooting Ghosts make for a remarkable and memorable book.”—Santiago Lyon, former vice president of photography at the Associated Press, winner of two World Press Photo prizes and the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents“Shooting Ghosts should be mandatory reading for all of us families and loved ones who are ‘grateful for the service’ of our armed forces. It reveals what it means to be human, and is a testament to the healing powers of friendship.”—Emma Sky, senior fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University, and author of The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq “Peering into the hellish abyss of trauma-induced madness, a marine and the photojournalist sent to photograph him tell how their lives and experiences intertwined on paralle
Thomas James Brennan, recipient of the Purple Heart, was a sergeant in the Marine Corps until medically retired in 2012. Brennan was the military affairs reporter at the Jacksonville Daily News from early 2013 through mid-2014. He was profiled in the documentary film Under Fire: Journalists in Combat (Peabody Award winner, Oscar finalist)
"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the ScoreA unique joint memoir by a U.S. For Brennan, it’s the things he’s done, or didn’t do, that haunt him. But war correspondents experience similar rates of posttraumatic stress as combat veterans. Their friendship offered them both a shot at redemption. Brennan was injured during a Taliban ambush, and both returned home. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and soulsWar tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Shooting Ghosts looks at the horrors of war directly, but then turns to a journey that draws on our growing understanding of what recovery takes. J. While war never really ends for those who’ve lived through it, this book charts the ways two survivors have found to calm the ghosts and reclaim a measure of peace.. The causes can be different, but guilt plays a prominent role in both. It deepened after Sergeant T. Brennan began to suffer from the effects of his injury and from the fallout of his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. As we enter the