Iraq War veteran Benjamin Busch reflects on a childhood spent roaming rural New York and how that pastoral upbringing led to a career in the US Marine Corps where he witnessed violence and death during two combat tours at the height of sectarian violence. Like the work of Tim O'Brien and Karl Marlantes, this book is a moving account of confronting mortality framed in elemental chapters: water, metal, blood, bone.
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