Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
by Jim Sheeler
List Price:
Our Price: $0.95
You Save: $25.00 (96%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Jim SheelerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN: 159420165X
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Summary of Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
Based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning story, Jim Sheeler?s unprecedented look at the way our country honors its dead; Final Salute Is a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the families who continue to mourn themThey are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. ?The curtains pull away. They come to the door. And they know. They always know,? said Major Steve Beck.
Since the start of the war in Iraq, marines like Major Beck found themselves thrown into a different kind of mission: casualty notification. It is a job Major Beck never asked for and one for which he received no training. They are given no set rules, only impersonal guidelines.
Marines are trained to kill, to break down doors, but casualty notification is a mission without weapons. For Beck, the mission meant learning each dead marine?s name and nickname, touching the toys they grew up with and reading the letters they wrote home. He held grieving mothers in long embraces, absorbing their muffled cries into the dark blue shoulder of his uniform. He stitched himself into the fabric of their lives, in the simple hope that his compassion might help alleviate at least the smallest piece of their pain. Sometimes he returned home to his own family unable to keep from crying in the dark.
In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen and of the broken homes they have left behind. It is also the story of Major Steve Beck and his unflagging efforts to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. Above all, it is a moving tribute to our troops, putting faces to the mostly anonymous names of our courageous heroes, and to the brave families who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country. Final Salute is the achingly beautiful, devastatingly honest story of the true toll of war. After the knock on the door, the story has only begun.
Grief & Bereavement Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Grief & Bereavement Books
An Intimate Loneliness: Supporting Bereaved Parents and Siblings (Facing Death)by Gordon Riches, Pam Dawson
Open University Pres; Published: 2000-02-01; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops:
Life After Suicideby E. Betsy Ross
Da Capo Press; Published: 1997-08-21; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $25.00
Price in other shops:
Good Griefby Granger E. Westberg
SPCK Publishing; Published: 2011-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.12
Price in other shops:
Bequest and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent's Deathby Nancy K. Miller
Indiana University Press; Published: 2000-01-22; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.52
Price in other shops:
Death, Society, and Human Experience (7th Edition)by Robert Kastenbaum
Allyn & Bacon; Published: 2000-07-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $24.80
Price in other shops:
Death, Society and Human Experience (11th Edition)by Robert J. Kastenbaum
Prentice Hall; Published: 2011-09-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $86.40
Price in other shops:
Time for Dyingby Barney G. Glaser, Anselm L. Strauss
Aldine Publishing; Published: 1968-12-31; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $135.36
Letters from Motherless Daughters: Words of Courage, Grief, and HealingAddison-Wesley Publishing Company; Published: 1995-05; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.05
Price in other shops:
Caring for a Dying Relative: A Guide for Familiesby Derek Doyle
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 1994-01-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $68.57
You Can Help Someone Who's Grievingby Victoria Frigo, Diane Fisher, Mary Lou Cook
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 1996-09-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.61
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Livesby Jim Sheeler
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2009-04-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.85
Price in other shops:
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War IIby Evelyn Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Anchor; Published: 2004-11-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.68
Price in other shops:
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnamby John A. Nagl
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2005-09-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.24
Price in other shops:
Artist Not Provided - National Geographic: Arlington - Field of HonorNational Geographic; Release date: 2005-05-17; DVD
Best price: $2.67
Price in other shops:
Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little Warby Matt Gallagher
Da Capo Press; Published: 2010-03-23; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.48
Price in other shops:
Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallenby Michael Sledge
Columbia University Press; Published: 2007-04-27; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.79
Price in other shops:
On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemeteryby Robert M M. Poole
Walker & Company; Published: 2010-10-26; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.17
Price in other shops:
The Gift of Valor: A War Storyby Michael M. Phillips
Broadway; Published: 2006-05-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.26
Price in other shops:
Taking ChanceVPD; Release date: 2009-05-12; DVD
Best price: $11.50
Price in other shops:
Obit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Livesby Jim Sheeler
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2008-04-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.97
Price in other shops: