Embedded on the home front : where military and civilian lives converge / edited by Joan Dixon and Barb Howard.

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9781927051672
1927051673
9781927051580
1927051584

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Embedded on the home front.DDC classification:

C814/.60803581 23
306.2/70850971 23

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PS8367.W3 E43 2012eb

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Contents:

Contents -- Introduction -- Yellow Ribbons (Nancy McAllister) -- In One of the Stars I Shall Be Living (Melanie Murray) -- We Are (a Military) Family (Kelly Thompson) -- Falling for a Soldier: The Battle Lines of a Love Triangle (Shaun Hunter) -- Coming Home to a New World (Ryan Flavelle) -- Snapshots: Life, Peace and Coffee on the Home Front (Ellen Kelly) -- The Reservist (Barb Howard) -- Hostage to Fate (Michael Hornburg) -- Reconstruction Tour (Scott Waters) -- Finding My Way Backto Some Kind of Normal (Jill Kruse)

The Perils of War and Motherâ€?Son Relationships (Joan Dixon)Embed (S.M. Steele) -- Terribly Beautiful: Remembrance and Remembering (Kari Strutt) -- Playing Ball: Random Notes From Behind the Front Lines of the Pax Americana (Chris Turner) -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors

Summary: Home front. It's hard to separate that word from war. In the First and Second World Wars, the home front was a clear entity and location: if you weren't on the frontlines, you were on the home front. But during current times of peacekeeping, peacemaking and armed interventions, the notion of home front seems to comprise only those who are in some way directly affected by the military: family and friends of soldiers, returning soldiers or ex-soldiers--an invisible group camouflaged by everyday jobs and activities. Editors Barb Howard and Joan Dixon have compiled insightful essays and reflections from 14 writers, including Melanie Murray, Scott Waters, Ryan Flavelle and Chris Turner. All have found themselves, at one time or another, embedded on the home front. And even though each experience is unique and comes from a single perspective, common motifs surface: family, fate, death and memory. This anthology captures triumphs, incredible fortitude and humour, often in the face of grief, as well as the complicated logic, fears, anger and other everyday realities that are part of home-front life.

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Home front. It's hard to separate that word from war. In the First and Second World Wars, the home front was a clear entity and location: if you weren't on the frontlines, you were on the home front. But during current times of peacekeeping, peacemaking and armed interventions, the notion of home front seems to comprise only those who are in some way directly affected by the military: family and friends of soldiers, returning soldiers or ex-soldiers--an invisible group camouflaged by everyday jobs and activities. Editors Barb Howard and Joan Dixon have compiled insightful essays and reflections from 14 writers, including Melanie Murray, Scott Waters, Ryan Flavelle and Chris Turner. All have found themselves, at one time or another, embedded on the home front. And even though each experience is unique and comes from a single perspective, common motifs surface: family, fate, death and memory. This anthology captures triumphs, incredible fortitude and humour, often in the face of grief, as well as the complicated logic, fears, anger and other everyday realities that are part of home-front life.

Original version: S.l. : Heritage House, 2012.

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