Dear Kara: One Man's Journey From War to War

By Paul J. Giannone

Dear Kara is a story of one man?s lifetime journey from the battlefields of Vietnam to the dangerous environment of the Afghan/Pakistan border after 9/11. Paul Giannone volunteered for the army and Vietnam for all the wrong reasons. He was flunking out of college, he believed in a John Wayne image of the American fighting man, and he had just broken up with his girlfriend. Paul arrived in Vietnam as a macho warrior; he came home dedicated to helping others and finding peace for himself. In two tours with a civil affairs company, he saw many of the horrors and sadness of war up close and personal, and the devastating impact of our foreign policy on civilians. Paul pledged to himself that he would spend the rest of his life trying to do what he could to help those most vulnerable. Paul thought he would work in international public health development projects but circumstances and chance keep pulling him into the vortex of war, refugees, and emergency response. Paul?s career path gave him a window on some of the most dramatic events of the past 40 years. His insider experiences are insights rarely covered by the media or told to us by our government. His stories are timely, poignant and honest. It is hard not to think of Iraq, Afghanistan, Tea Party politics and the current friction with Iran when reading what he has written. It begs the question of whether we can actually learn from our own recent history and break a 60-year pattern of failure in so many of our foreign and domestic policies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978612086
• ISBN13: 9780978612085
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Dream Catcher Publishing
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"