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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Moonlight meets American Sniper in this groundbreaking memoir and political commentary from a bold new voice in American politics. Before he became a war veteran and political analyst, he was a young black man who enlisted in the U.S. Army right out of high school, survived the notoriously brutal Infantry basic training, and served while remaining a closeted gay man to all but a few of his colleagues. At his first duty station, he finds himself in...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Description
There is a country where citizens are interrogated for long hours and threatened with prison or the loss of their children if they do not cooperate, where citizens are ordered to denounce others, to give information - often entirely fabricated - dispatching people to ignominy and jail. And if they refuse, they are threatened with prison. This country is America, and the subjects under attack are people who have chosen to serve their nation. They are...
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Description
With four words -- "I am a lesbian" -- Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer became the highest ranking officer ever to challenge the military's anti-gay policy. Colonel Cammermeyer recounts her journey of self-discovery from her childhood in German-occupied Norway to the intense media coverage of her dismissal from the U.S. Army. Focusing more on her personal experience than on a political agenda, she offers listeners a rare glimpse into the evolution that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
McGowan enlisted in the army in the late 1980s with a secret: he was gay. In the don't-ask-don't-tell world of the Clinton-era army, being gay meant automatic expulsion, so he hid his sexual identity and continued to serve with distinction for ten years. He commanded U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf, eventually rising to the rank of major, but ultimately realized that the army held no future for gay men--even closeted ones.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Author Josh Trujillo and illustrator Levi Hastings tell the true story of one of the most important--but largely forgotten--military leaders of the American Revolution, Baron von Steuben, who brought much-needed knowledge to the inexperienced and ill-prepared Continental Army. As its first Inspector General, von Steuben created an organizational framework for the US military, which included writing the Blue Book guide that became the standard for...