Seriously not all right [electronic resource] : five wars in ten years / Ron Capps.
2014
CT275.C2795 A3 2014eb
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Seriously not all right [electronic resource] : five wars in ten years / Ron Capps.
Author
Capps, Ron.
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9781936182596 electronic book
1936182599 electronic book
9781936182589
1936182580
1936182599 electronic book
9781936182589
1936182580
Published
Tucson, Arizona : Schaffner Press, Inc., 2014.
Language
English
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1 online resource (xv, 263 pages) : maps, portraits.
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CT275.C2795 A3 2014eb
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616.85/2120092
Summary
"SERIOUSLY NOT ALL RIGHT : Five Wars in Ten Years is a memoir by Ron Capps, who served both in military intelligence and in the foreign service and as an observer over the span of ten years in wars raging in three continents and over a span of a decade, from Kosovo to Darfur. He received the Bronze Star Medal for his service in Afghanistan, and the William Rivkin Award for his work in Darfur. The victim of PTSD as the result of the human rights abuses he witnessed over this period, he subsequently obtained a medical discharge, earned a double masters degree in writing at Johns Hopkins University, and founded the Veterans Writing Project. He currently teaches at Walter Reed Hospital and George Washington University, and is the editor of the literary magazine Zero Dark Thirty"-- Provided by publisher.
"For more than a decade, Ron Capps, serving as both a senior military intelligence officer and as a Foreign Service officer for the U.S. Department of State, was witness to war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. From government atrocities in Kosovo, to the brutal cruelties perpetrated in several conflicts in central Africa, the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and culminating in genocide in Darfur, Ron acted as an intelligence collector and reporter but was diplomatically restrained from taking preventative action in these conflicts. The cumulative effect of these experiences, combined with the helplessness of his role as an observer, propelled him into a deep depression and a long bout with PTSD, which nearly caused him to take his own life. Seriously Not All Right is a memoir that provides a unique perspective of a professional military officer and diplomat who suffered (and continues to suffer) from PTSD. His story, and that of his recovery and his newfound role as founder and teacher of the Veterans Writing Project, is an inspiration and a sobering reminder of the cost of all wars, particularly those that appeared in the media and to the general public as merely sidelines in the unfolding drama of world events"-- Provided by publisher.
"For more than a decade, Ron Capps, serving as both a senior military intelligence officer and as a Foreign Service officer for the U.S. Department of State, was witness to war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. From government atrocities in Kosovo, to the brutal cruelties perpetrated in several conflicts in central Africa, the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and culminating in genocide in Darfur, Ron acted as an intelligence collector and reporter but was diplomatically restrained from taking preventative action in these conflicts. The cumulative effect of these experiences, combined with the helplessness of his role as an observer, propelled him into a deep depression and a long bout with PTSD, which nearly caused him to take his own life. Seriously Not All Right is a memoir that provides a unique perspective of a professional military officer and diplomat who suffered (and continues to suffer) from PTSD. His story, and that of his recovery and his newfound role as founder and teacher of the Veterans Writing Project, is an inspiration and a sobering reminder of the cost of all wars, particularly those that appeared in the media and to the general public as merely sidelines in the unfolding drama of world events"-- Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Part I. KOSOVO, 2000-2002
My New Favorite Person
Klaxon
Yellow
Istinic
Podujevo
Shqiptar
Skopje
The Duke of Dragobilje
Malisevo
Racak
Celebratory Gunfire
Part II. CENTRAL AFRICA, 1995-1998 / 2000-2002
No Deed Goes Unpunished
The Banyamulenge War
Count the Feet
Prostrates
Our Ndoki
Part III. AFGHANISTAN and IRAQ, 2002-2004
Hold the Javelinas : Bagram
A Danger to Myself or Others
Seriously Not Alright
Here be Monsters
An Unruly Garden
The Northern Alliance
Part IV. DARFUR, 2004-2007
A Trick of the Geographers
Three Mohammeds
An Empty Auditorium
Uncle Wiggily in Darfur
All Things Being Equal
The French Lieutenant's iPod
Part V. THE WAR AT HOME
Who Will Apologize?
Plan B
Walking the Halls
The Whole Megillah
Writing My Way Home
Epilogue: Forgive and Forget.
Part I. KOSOVO, 2000-2002
My New Favorite Person
Klaxon
Yellow
Istinic
Podujevo
Shqiptar
Skopje
The Duke of Dragobilje
Malisevo
Racak
Celebratory Gunfire
Part II. CENTRAL AFRICA, 1995-1998 / 2000-2002
No Deed Goes Unpunished
The Banyamulenge War
Count the Feet
Prostrates
Our Ndoki
Part III. AFGHANISTAN and IRAQ, 2002-2004
Hold the Javelinas : Bagram
A Danger to Myself or Others
Seriously Not Alright
Here be Monsters
An Unruly Garden
The Northern Alliance
Part IV. DARFUR, 2004-2007
A Trick of the Geographers
Three Mohammeds
An Empty Auditorium
Uncle Wiggily in Darfur
All Things Being Equal
The French Lieutenant's iPod
Part V. THE WAR AT HOME
Who Will Apologize?
Plan B
Walking the Halls
The Whole Megillah
Writing My Way Home
Epilogue: Forgive and Forget.