Two Wars: One Hero's Fight on Two Fronts--Abroad and WithinFormer army ranger Nate Self, a hero from the Robert’s Ridge rescue in Afghanistan, tells his whole story—from the pulse-pounding battle in the mountains of Afghanistan to the high-stakes battle he has waged against post traumatic stress disorder. This book will become a go-to book for understanding the long-term effects of the war on terror. Thousands of families are fighting this battle, and Nate opens up his life—including his successes, tragedies, struggles with thoughts of suicide—to show how his faith and his family pulled him through. Includes 8 pages of color photos. In a nutshell:
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... Night Stalkers.” They're the best in the world. They fly an MH-47E Chinook, which looks like a black school bus crowned with two spinning telephone poles. I watch them balance against the pilot's evasive nap-of-the-earth flight ...
... Night Stalkers.” They're the best in the world. They fly an MH-47E Chinook, which looks like a black school bus crowned with two spinning telephone poles. I watch them balance against the pilot's evasive nap-of-the-earth flight ...
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... night-vision goggles mounted on his helmet and stows them in his medical aid bag. I look around to see the others removing their goggles and making final adjustments—tightening chin straps, ensuring they have rounds chambered, adjusting ...
... night-vision goggles mounted on his helmet and stows them in his medical aid bag. I look around to see the others removing their goggles and making final adjustments—tightening chin straps, ensuring they have rounds chambered, adjusting ...
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... night?” “Nah,” I said. “Packed my ruck three times.” The one thing I still needed to pack was a Ziploc bag of letters from home. A letter from Momma and Daddy, a note from a friend, a postcard from the women's prayer group at church. My ...
... night?” “Nah,” I said. “Packed my ruck three times.” The one thing I still needed to pack was a Ziploc bag of letters from home. A letter from Momma and Daddy, a note from a friend, a postcard from the women's prayer group at church. My ...
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... night and a quart per hour on the march. My high school football coaches hadn't let us drink anything, thinking we'd get “waterlogged” and vomit. That was a different army, and much more fun. Desperate for a rest, I hoped that the group ...
... night and a quart per hour on the march. My high school football coaches hadn't let us drink anything, thinking we'd get “waterlogged” and vomit. That was a different army, and much more fun. Desperate for a rest, I hoped that the group ...
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... It was salty, but cool. Back in the barracks, my roommates and I stripped off our starched cross belts and brass buckles, preparing for our first night of privileges outside the Academy—hamburgers and phone calls home. We. 20 ☆ TWO WARS.
... It was salty, but cool. Back in the barracks, my roommates and I stripped off our starched cross belts and brass buckles, preparing for our first night of privileges outside the Academy—hamburgers and phone calls home. We. 20 ☆ TWO WARS.
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Page 136 - The LORD watches over you — the LORD is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD will keep you from all harm — he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
Page 257 - From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Page 180 - You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen.
Page 67 - For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Page 166 - I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, though death was levelling my companions on every side...
Page 47 - But what a cruel thing is war; to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world ; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful .world...
Page 136 - The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now andforevermore.
Page 358 - A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother