Prepare for an emotional experience when you read Final Salute, a carefully crafted description of a very tough job, that of the Marines who notify the families of deaths in combat, and who take care of those families through funerals and beyond. Perhaps the members of Congress who voted for the Iraq war should read this book so they can fully comprehend the human toll they unleashed.
The book talks about angry widows, very sad little boys, people that make mistakes and families that behave so nobly as to belong in some impossible Greek tragedy. It takes your breath away.
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April 21, 2009 at 8:56 pm
[...] you enjoy this topic I’d like to once again plug Final Salute, an astonishing memoir of a man whose job was to tell Marines’ families of their sons’, [...]