Everyone needs to read this, especially the president and his wife.

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	• The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family Martha Raddatz Tantor Media, 2007 average customer review:based on 66 reviews view larger image
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Everyone needs to read this, especially the president and his wife.

This is a woderfully written book. You are emotionally taken to the war zones and amongst these wonderfully brave young men and women who are trying their very best to serve our country. You feel the heat and cold, dirt and noise of the war and see the lack of support they must feel with the lack of properly outfitted equipment etc.
It breaks my heart to think about all the goof ups, denial and greed that got us to this point.

Clear-eyed view of war

War is always a confusing and fluid situation in which no one has perfect knowledge of the situation and in which the enemy also has a vote. In battle the situation can change radically and rapidly, and leaders are always stretching to keep up with the situation. Critics at home, faced with no personal danger and armed with 20/20 hindsight are too often fountains of wisdom about what should have been done and who was "incompetent" in dealing with a fast-moving situation while armed with only partial information.

Martha Raddatz has captured clearly the reality of war, for the soldiers as well as the families on the home front. This book chronicles the events, the experiences and the attitudes of the individuals and their families involved in one battle from their own points of view.

It is unusual to find such an objective perspective about a subject so fraught with emotion in our country today. Too many are only interested in pointing fingers and assigning blame to really appreciate the selfless sacrifices our brave soldiers and their families are making for their country. Soldiers of my generation were spit at (and worse) as we returned from the war, and I see a lot of those attitudes building in our country again; let us hope that the experiences of my generation are never again repeated in this country.

It is far easier to criticize than to understand; this book offers understanding to those who are willing to see. All Americans should read this book to appreciate the price of their freedom which has been paid in blood by our soldiers in all of the wars in our country's history.

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Excellent Read!!

Martha Raddatz did a fantastic job of putting to paper the stories of our military families during a time of war. The book is very compelling and hard to read at times because of the content, but hard to put down at the same time. It makes you realize how much war affects entire families, not just the soldiers on the battlefield. I didn't know much about the ambush in Sadr City before I read this account, and now have an even better respect for our fighting forces. Martha Raddatz penned this story incredibly well, I'll read more of her works as they come out.

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Another point of view

In this book Martha Raddatz gives a very personal look not only at the troops serving our country but at their families. It is not an easy book to read but it is important that you do so.

Ordinary people

Again and again, at the end of the News Hour we see "Here in silence are fifteen more." We somberly read their names and search their faces, wondering. In The Long Road Home, Raddatz brings the war in Iraq home in a new way. With vivid descriptions of sights and sounds and feelings, she helps us connect on a human level with the real people immersed in this horrific struggle. By including the families of the troops, The Long Road Home demonstrates the profound disruption that war causes in the lives of ordinary people.
Readers looking for stories about the effects of parental deployment on children might be interested in Danger, Long Division, a novel for preteens in which Becca has to cope alone with the ordinary challenges of fifth grade while her dad is deployed to a war zone. While it leaves the horrors of war unspoken, Danger, Long Division provides a springboard for discussions with young people about how it feels to have a parent in danger.

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