On Tuesday, April 29th, the Alexandria Campus hosts a showing of the HBO documentary “Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq” in which ten soldiers and Marines who have been severely wounded in Iraq are interviewed by James Gandolfini.  One of the featured Marines is Michael Jernigan, a student at the Alexandria Campus.

See the film at 5:30pm on April 29th in Bisdorf AA158.  Learn more about the lives of those who are serving our country now, the challenges for their families, and the experiences of veterans of previous wars.

April 2008

Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq.  DVD  DS79.76 .A3985x 2007

The All-Volunteer Force: Thirty Years of Service   UB323 .A645x 2004 

America at a Crossroads:  Warriors.  DVD   DS79.76 .A439379x 2007

AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America’s Upper Classes from Military Service—And How It Hurts Our Country by Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer  UB323 .R68 2006

Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq by Kirsten Homstedt. DS79.76 .H652 2007

Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters – and One Man’s Search to Find Them by Andrew Carroll  E745 .B447 2005

Born on the Fourth of July.  DVD   DS559.5 K68 2004b

Expert Resumes for Military-to-Civilian Transitions by Wendy S. Enelow and Louise M. Kursmark   HF5383 .E47885 2006

Home Fires Burning: Married to the Military – for Better or Worse by Karen Houppert UB403 .H68 2005

Home from the War: Learning from Vietnam Veterans by Robert Jay Lifton DS559.73 .U6 L54 2005

Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans’ Movement by Gerald Nicosia DS559.62 .U6 N53 2001

In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat by Rick Atkinson DS79.764 .U6 A85 2005

Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq by Jason Christopher Hartley DS79.76 .H374 2005

Korean War Stories   VHS   DS921.6 .K679x 2001

The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell:  An Accidental Soldier’s Account of the War in Iraq by John Crawford   DS 79.76 .C737 2005

Military-to-Civilian Career Transition Guide by Janet I. Farley   HF5384 .F37 2005

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience  DVD   DS79.76 .O6342x 2007

A Soldiers’ Portfolio: This Is Our War: Servicemen’s Photographs of Life in Iraq By Devin Friedman & the Editors of GQ    DS79.762 .F75 2006  (MA)

Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation by Suzanne Mettler   UB357 .M475 2005

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien   Recorded book   PS3576 .B75 T48 2003

U.S. Military Service by Cynthia A. Watson   UB323 .W358 2007

While They’re At War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront by Kristin Henderson   DS79.76 .H46 2006

Women in the Combat Zone   DVD    UB418 .W65 W6536639x 2005

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