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Humanix Books
Language
English
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"All veterans and their families deserve the maximum benefits they earned by bravely serving their country! Veterans of the United States armed forces are entitled to a broad range of benefits and services provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Dr. Paul R Lawrence, former Under Secretary for Benefits in the Department of Veterans Affairs, provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and accessible guide to all the benefits and services available...
2) Veterans Day
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Amicus
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English
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"Veterans Day is a day to thank the men and women who keep our nation safe. The patriotic symbols and traditions of this holiday shine in this search-and-find low-level reader that reinforces key vocabulary for early learners"--
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English
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"The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking." "Professor James Murray, an astonishingly...
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English
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An expert on traumatic stress outlines an approach to healing, explaining how traumatic stress affects brain processes and how to use innovative treatments to reactivate the mind's abilities to trust, engage others, and experience pleasure. --Publisher's description.
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Crown Publishers
Edition
First edition.
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English
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President George W. Bush presents a collection of oil paintings and stories of servicemen and women who have served our nation with honor since 9/11--and whom he has come to know personally. Growing out of his own outreach, and the ongoing work of the George W. Bush Institutes's Military Service Initiative, each painting is accompanied by the inspiring story of the veteran depicted. These stories of courage and resilience honor our men and women in...
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Crown
Language
English
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While America and the rest of the world watched the Vietnam War on television, a handful of elite Air Force pilots, wearing anything but uniforms and piloting unarmored, small, prop-driven aircraft, fought a secret war, one that has remained secret right up until today. The few Americans in Vietnam who knew about it called it "the other theater"--a small nation called Laos, next door to Vietnam, bordered by the Ho Chi Minh Trail, China, and Thailand....
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Hyperion
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"Tuesday has a personality that shines. I am not kidding when I say it is common for people to pull out their cell phones and take pictures of and with him. Tuesday is that kind of dog. And then, in passing, they notice me, the big man with the tight haircut. There is nothing about me--even the straight, stiff way I carry myself--that signals disabled. Until people notice the cane in my left hand, that is, and the way I lean on it every few steps....
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Fox News Books
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"In over a decade of working with veterans, Johnny Joey Jones has discovered the power of battle-forged friendships. Suffering a life-changing injury while deployed in Afghanistan, he faced a daunting recovery. But coming home would have been much harder without the support of his brothers and sisters in arms. In Unbroken Bonds of Battle, Joey tells the stories of those very warriors, who for years have supported and inspired him on the battlefield...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a dividson of W.W. Norton & Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans--tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions--tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome...
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Thomas Dunne Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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On the outside, John Parrish is a highly successful doctor, having risen to the top of his field as department head at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Inside, however, he was so tortured by the memories of his tour of duty as a marine battlefield doctor in Vietnam that he was unable to live a normal life. In Autopsy of War, the author delivers an unflinching narrative chronicling his four-decade battle with the unseen enemy...
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The University of Chicago Press
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English
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Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith in an American martial ideal-that war could be fought without permanent casualties, and that innovative technology could easily repair...
16) Veterans Day
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Publisher
PowerKids Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While Veterans Day began at the end of World War I, it is a holiday that commemorates and celebrates all men and women who have served in the military. From the starting ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to the colorful hometown parades celebrating war heroes, patriotic pride will be stirred in young readers.
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Publisher
Random House
Language
English
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The New York Times bestseller, hailed as a "powerful and epic story... the best account of infantry combat I have ever read, and the most significant book to come out of the Vietnam War" by Col. David Hackworth, author of the bestseller About Face. In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded...
19) For service to your country: the essential guide to getting the veterans' benefits you've earned
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Publisher
Citadel Press
Edition
New updated edition.
Language
English
Description
Advises veterans on how and where to claim benefits from the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) such as health care and job benefits.
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Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
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English
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"As a kid in suburban Chicago, Gary Sinise was more interested in sports and rock 'n' roll than reading or schoolwork. But when he impulsively auditioned for a school production of West Side Story, he found his purpose--or so it seemed. Within a few years Gary and a handful of friends created what became one of the most exciting and important new theater companies in America. From its humble beginnings in a suburban Chicago church basement and eventual...
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