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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Livesby: Jim Sheeler  List Price: $25.95 Amazon.com's Price: $15.26 You Save: $10.69 (41%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 956.704437 EAN: 9781594201653 Edition: 1 ISBN: 159420165X Label: Penguin Press HC, The Manufacturer: Penguin Press HC, The Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: May 01, 2008 Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The Studio: Penguin Press HC, The Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning story, Jim Sheeler’s unprecedented look at the way our country honors its dead; Final Salute Is a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the families who continue to mourn them They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. “The curtains pull away. They come to the door. And they know. They always know,” said Major Steve Beck. Since the start of the war in Iraq, marines like Major Beck found themselves thrown into a different kind of mission: casualty notification. It is a job Major Beck never asked for and one for which he received no training. They are given no set rules, only impersonal guidelines. Marines are trained to kill, to break down doors, but casualty notification is a mission without weapons. For Beck, the mission meant learning each dead marine’s name and nickname, touching the toys they grew up with and reading the letters they wrote home. He held grieving mothers in long embraces, absorbing their muffled cries into the dark blue shoulder of his uniform. He stitched himself into the fabric of their lives, in the simple hope that his compassion might help alleviate at least the smallest piece of their pain. Sometimes he returned home to his own family unable to keep from crying in the dark. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen and of the broken homes they have left behind. It is also the story of Major Steve Beck and his unflagging efforts to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. Above all, it is a moving tribute to our troops, putting faces to the mostly anonymous names of our courageous heroes, and to the brave families who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country. Final Salute is the achingly beautiful, devastatingly honest story of the true toll of war. After the knock on the door, the story has only begun. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The Final SaluteThe most life altering book I have ever read. No one can read this book without being changed forever. A part of the military function that most people do not think about, but it is the part that truly defines all of us. Required reading for all thinking persons. Rating: - Should be mandatory reading for ALL Americans!It took me two weeks to read this book, not because it is a difficult read but because every page caused me to cry my heart out. Sharing these stories honors all who have served our nation (families included) with the sacrifices they have made. No matter your personal politics this is a book that every American should read. Just make sure you have a box of tissues nearby when you do! Rating: - It's not an ending. It's not a period at the end of their lives. It's a semicolon. The story will continue to be told.I remember looking out the window as the flight I was on unloaded the flag draped box containing the coffin of a fallen soldier. The young man who had accompanied his fellow soldier qiuetly walked off the plane, stopping only for a hug from a fellow passenger. I was stunned by this visual reminder of the battles fought half a world away. Not a sound was heard in the previously harried cabin, cell phones were quieted, voices hushed, tears shed as we gathered around the windows and watched as a solemn ... Read More Rating: - The Face of War's SorrowFinal Salute looks deep into the inner part of grief and sorrow experienced by families affected by the war in Iraq. The numbers of people lost in the war reverberate and ripple through numerous lives both on the battle field and the home front. The thousands of lives lost represent tens of thousands of those who loved them and are affected by their deaths. The book gives the reader a sense of intense sadness and loss but you don't want to stop reading it the way you don't want to stop listening ... Read More Rating: - Tribute to HeroesWhat a tribute to the fallen, and those charged with the duties of notifying next of kin. 
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