Little Warrior Brother Volume 1 Gabe Keith Scott Waldyn MS Lara J Cox MD Rebecca L Davis Caleb Stauss 9780998662206 Books
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Two young men fight two wars, decades apart - one in Iraq, his uncle in Vietnam. Following the nephew's return, they visit their parallel stories, exploring the realities of war, the passing of childhood, and the soul of a soldier on the road to moving on.
Little Warrior Brother Volume 1 Gabe Keith Scott Waldyn MS Lara J Cox MD Rebecca L Davis Caleb Stauss 9780998662206 Books
I read this book (Kindle version) for two reasons, maybe three. First, I have known Gabe Keith for years, mostly through his dad who I have worked with but more recently we have exchanged emails from time to time debating a variety of life topics. I have witnessed him both pre and post marines and though the contrast is stark, it is not depressing. He has always been a thoughtful, engaging young man and this is a thoughtful engaging work. His writing style is pleasing, his insights at times profound, his story compelling. I lost more than a little sleep to read "just one more chapter." I don't regret it.My second reason for wanting to read Little Warrior Brother was to try to gain understanding of the effect of war. I have a son who did two tours in Iraq. I saw the ways he changed; I sensed some of what he felt but there were questions I knew not to ask and situations and conditions he was not ready to divulge. In meeting Gabe again after his time in the Marines, there were also questions to be avoided. In this book, through this story many of those questions are answered for me. A few chapters in, I sent Gabe a quick message telling Him I had cried twice already. The tears shed were not from a particularly sad moment in the book. The were more tears of relief; of understanding. What I loved most about this book is the way in which his story sheds light on every "warrior's" story. The character I came to hate most in the book, I still had empathy for, knowing he was just as overwhelmed as everyone else. Truth in literature is rare, there is always an angle it seems. Gabe does a good job of describing an often harsh truth without whining. I'm not sure I could do the same.
My third and less important reason for wanting to read LWB was interest as to how he would handle the Vietnam / Iraq comparisons. This was a smaller portion of the book than expected, but important. As a society, I think we try to tell ourselves that we are making war less heinous. The evidences suggest otherwise.
I think this is an important book. The world is sometimes ugly and it may be that war is sometimes necessary. I'm not sure. I think though that if we choose to send our young men and women into battle, we should at least try to understand what it is costing them. Thank you Gabe Keith for giving us a glimpse of that cost.
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Little Warrior Brother Volume 1 Gabe Keith Scott Waldyn MS Lara J Cox MD Rebecca L Davis Caleb Stauss 9780998662206 Books Reviews
Gabe depicts the stories of himself and his uncle and their war experiences. Every Chapter begins with a dialogue between Gabe and his uncle about how to relate to the civilian world after their grueling experiences in war. The book then depicts the parallel stories the uncle's experience in Vietnam and Gabe's in Iraq.
Painful, brutal, and uncomfortably honest, Little warrior brother takes the reader with Gabe and his uncle through their painful experiences in war. Fighting the weather, abusive superiors, enemies, fellow soldiers, and returning home to an un empathetic home life, Gabe goes in to great detail into his pain and the similar pain of his uncle. This book puts the hellish reality of these soldiers experiences for the readers to step into.
This book significantly changed my understanding of what life in the marines is like. What I thought would be a book about the difficulty of combat, I learned that this is a book about the chaos, confusion, and abusive nature of military life. Chapter after chapter, Gabe describes the pain he suffered from the military environment, the active missions, and eventually the well meaning but ignorant civilian population that he and his uncle faced generations apart. Stories like this are hard to tell, hard to read, but are so important for both readers and storytellers. I highly recommend this book and I hope you take the time to appreciate the experiences of these to men.
Raw, gritty and unapologetic, this read will have you asking why any civilized society would turn normal young men and women into fighting and killing machines to protect our country and then do nothing to reprogram them when they are released to come home.
We understand the need for warriors. People will always war for any number of reasons. History tells us that we will always war. However we, as Americans have learned a few things. Vietnam revealed that we need to support our armed forces irrespective of the government entering into a conflict or not. Furthermore we understand that that our sons and daughters were not warriors when the joined. They young idealists. We get that.
What this book did is left me asking why we would think it's ok to program idealistic youth into Warriors, then send them to the far corners of the earth where they kill and get killed and send them home as WARRIORS. No readjustment program. No wonder they get back to what we call civilized life and expect them to slip right back into society. Gabe Keith shines the light on two wars and two warriors. They were trained to trust no one but their fellow warriors. Even then, not so much. They were trained to keep watch. They were trained to keep emotional feelings to themselves or deny emotions at all. This author reveals what happens to those who want to be soldiers.
They lose their idealism, balance within the old system because now THEY ARE WARRIORS. You can't send warriors back home without undoing what you did to make them soldiers.
S.D.L.
I wondered how he'd write about two experiences years apart but by the end I realized it's really about what happens to a soldier. The trauma of war and also about the disillusionment of what one was told, bought into and believed about being a soldier. I just hope this book will cause a ripple that turns into a change of the tide in the way our soldiers are handled during and after service. If you ever wondered why they seem angry this might help to understand why. I also congratulate him for telling a difficult story with the grace he did especially in regards to those who didn't understand what he needed as a returning soldier from war and then a vet and also to those who abused their role of leadership while in the service. It's raw and a necessary story to tell.
I read this book ( version) for two reasons, maybe three. First, I have known Gabe Keith for years, mostly through his dad who I have worked with but more recently we have exchanged emails from time to time debating a variety of life topics. I have witnessed him both pre and post marines and though the contrast is stark, it is not depressing. He has always been a thoughtful, engaging young man and this is a thoughtful engaging work. His writing style is pleasing, his insights at times profound, his story compelling. I lost more than a little sleep to read "just one more chapter." I don't regret it.
My second reason for wanting to read Little Warrior Brother was to try to gain understanding of the effect of war. I have a son who did two tours in Iraq. I saw the ways he changed; I sensed some of what he felt but there were questions I knew not to ask and situations and conditions he was not ready to divulge. In meeting Gabe again after his time in the Marines, there were also questions to be avoided. In this book, through this story many of those questions are answered for me. A few chapters in, I sent Gabe a quick message telling Him I had cried twice already. The tears shed were not from a particularly sad moment in the book. The were more tears of relief; of understanding. What I loved most about this book is the way in which his story sheds light on every "warrior's" story. The character I came to hate most in the book, I still had empathy for, knowing he was just as overwhelmed as everyone else. Truth in literature is rare, there is always an angle it seems. Gabe does a good job of describing an often harsh truth without whining. I'm not sure I could do the same.
My third and less important reason for wanting to read LWB was interest as to how he would handle the Vietnam / Iraq comparisons. This was a smaller portion of the book than expected, but important. As a society, I think we try to tell ourselves that we are making war less heinous. The evidences suggest otherwise.
I think this is an important book. The world is sometimes ugly and it may be that war is sometimes necessary. I'm not sure. I think though that if we choose to send our young men and women into battle, we should at least try to understand what it is costing them. Thank you Gabe Keith for giving us a glimpse of that cost.
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