For every service member killed in Iraq, 15 others have fallen ill, and 4,500 have been returned to the U.S. for medical treatment. Why? in crisp, clear, compelling writing, a prize-winning journalist examines the health and medical issues--with detailed individual examples--facing American military personnel and veterans, and investigates the military/bureaucratic politicking behind them, with: - comprehensive documentation from the CDC, VA, Pentagon- historical, war-by-war overview of the issues- comprehensive list of illnesses, syndromes and symptoms- veterans' battles over medical services and policy- analysis of military hospitals and services- public and classified military experiments- discussions of anthrax vaccine and depleted uranium- analysis of the high suicide, alcoholism and homicide rates in the in military.
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""A book that should be read by every school kid in America." -- WUSB radio, New York
"A searing indictment of the care and treatment of America's veterans" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"His exposé deserves a wide audience." -- Sunday Seattle Times
"A searing indictment of the care and treatment of America's veterans" -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"His exposé deserves a wide audience." -- Sunday Seattle Times
About the Author
Rick Anderson was a columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Seattle Times and a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle; he has also written for the Village Voice, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones and Salon, and now writes for the Seattle Weekly. He won the Heywood Broun Award, and his story, "Crippled Home Front," April 9, 2003, for the Seattle Weekly, is displayed at the Arlington National Cemetery website.
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Rick Anderson is a former San Francisco Chronicle sportswriter and an ex-news columnist for the The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Seattle Times - where he won the Haywood Broun award for columns about the underdog. He is the winner of the 2010 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies national award for news reporting and is included in The Best American Crime Reporting 2010. He is the author of Seattle Vice: Strippers, Prostitution, Dirty Money, and Crooked Cops in the Emerald City; and Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers. His work has appeared in Mother Jones, The Village Voice, Sports Illustrated, and Salon. He writes for Seattle Weekly.
"I was born on the front page. My dad was well-known in town and had been a big football star. Thus my birth got front-page billing in the Hoquiam 'Washingtonian,' under the headline 'Another Halfback is Born.' My uncle Art wrote sports for the Aberdeen 'Daily World' but I think I was more inspired by my grandfather Charlie Eddy, a drunken Irish newspaperman who tried to burn down his house for the insurance money. Now there's a journalist."
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rickanderson.seattle@comcast.net
Reviews:
"Seattle Vice"
-Seattlest says "Fantastic...Anderson has a perfect grasp not only on what's relevant in Seattle history, but what is compelling about it."
http://seattlest.com/2010/11/22/seattle_vice_taking_you_back_to_not.php
-Seattle Metropolitan magazine says "Maybe no one knows where more bodies, figurative and literal, are buried in this town than Rick Anderson...a good read and a valuable volume for any aficionado of Seattle history, politics, or crime."
http://www.seattlemet.com/blogs/culture-fiend/seattle-vice-rick-anderson-frank-colacurcio-strip-clubs-11-10/
-Seattle Times says "Recounts the colorful story of the empire of the late Frank Colacurcio Sr., the 'king of vice whose career spanned more than half a century ...'"
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2013320011_localbooks02.html
-Seattle Weekly says "an exhaustively researched alternative history of our region's netherworld, penned by about the only journalist in town who's qualified to write it."
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-11-10/calendar/rick-anderson/
-Interview, Nov. 4, KUOW,
http://www.kuow.washington.edu/program.php?id=21796
"The Best American Crime Reporting 2010"
-Booklist says: "Although it will be of interest primarily to true-crime aficionados, this is not really a true-crime book. The focus is on the people--perpetrators and victims--rather than the nuts-and-bolts details of the crimes and investigations. For example, Rick Anderson profiles a career criminal who spent most of the past quarter-century in jail but still managed to rack up 112 convictions over the brief periods when he was out...a consistently interesting series that always spotlights fine writing and engaging stories."
"I was born on the front page. My dad was well-known in town and had been a big football star. Thus my birth got front-page billing in the Hoquiam 'Washingtonian,' under the headline 'Another Halfback is Born.' My uncle Art wrote sports for the Aberdeen 'Daily World' but I think I was more inspired by my grandfather Charlie Eddy, a drunken Irish newspaperman who tried to burn down his house for the insurance money. Now there's a journalist."
Contact:
rickanderson.seattle@comcast.net
Reviews:
"Seattle Vice"
-Seattlest says "Fantastic...Anderson has a perfect grasp not only on what's relevant in Seattle history, but what is compelling about it."
http://seattlest.com/2010/11/22/seattle_vice_taking_you_back_to_not.php
-Seattle Metropolitan magazine says "Maybe no one knows where more bodies, figurative and literal, are buried in this town than Rick Anderson...a good read and a valuable volume for any aficionado of Seattle history, politics, or crime."
http://www.seattlemet.com/blogs/culture-fiend/seattle-vice-rick-anderson-frank-colacurcio-strip-clubs-11-10/
-Seattle Times says "Recounts the colorful story of the empire of the late Frank Colacurcio Sr., the 'king of vice whose career spanned more than half a century ...'"
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2013320011_localbooks02.html
-Seattle Weekly says "an exhaustively researched alternative history of our region's netherworld, penned by about the only journalist in town who's qualified to write it."
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-11-10/calendar/rick-anderson/
-Interview, Nov. 4, KUOW,
http://www.kuow.washington.edu/program.php?id=21796
"The Best American Crime Reporting 2010"
-Booklist says: "Although it will be of interest primarily to true-crime aficionados, this is not really a true-crime book. The focus is on the people--perpetrators and victims--rather than the nuts-and-bolts details of the crimes and investigations. For example, Rick Anderson profiles a career criminal who spent most of the past quarter-century in jail but still managed to rack up 112 convictions over the brief periods when he was out...a consistently interesting series that always spotlights fine writing and engaging stories."
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Important for solidiers, vets and families,
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This review is from: Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers : A Report on How America's Weapons, Medicines, and Bureaucracies of Mass Destruction Harm our Troops and Veterans (Paperback)
This is not a Bush-bashing book but a government-bashing book (White House, Congress, name any year) and deservedly so. It's a timly and telling reminder of how we - our leaders - treat our troops on the war and home fronts. We've all heard about it - here are the sad and gory details.
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A story that Kerry and Bush should read,
By Rose White (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers : A Report on How America's Weapons, Medicines, and Bureaucracies of Mass Destruction Harm our Troops and Veterans (Paperback)
I heard the author interviewed on New York radio, where the host said every school kid in America should read this book. I agree. Don't sign that oath until you read what we really do to some of our soliders and vets.
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"War on Soldiers" is an understatement,
By Susan (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Home Front: The Government's War on Soldiers : A Report on How America's Weapons, Medicines, and Bureaucracies of Mass Destruction Harm our Troops and Veterans (Paperback)
This book both disgusted and enraged me. Everyone who waves the flag and shouts "Support the Troops" should read this book to learn how our government abuses these men and women and then breaks the most basic promises of support it made to them. It's like a laundry list of hypocrisy!
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Toney Edwards met his daughter around midnight in the hallway at Fort Sam Houston's Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anthrax vaccine, anthrax vaccination, pyridostigmine bromide, war illnesses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf War, Air Force, Department of Defense, United States, Defense Department, White House, Fort Bragg, Agent Orange, Desert Storm, Sandra Larson, Saudi Arabia, General Accounting Office, New York, Saddam Hussein, President Bush, Jessica Lynch, Steve Robinson, Supreme Court, American Legion, Department of Veterans Affairs, Institute of Medicine, Joe Hooper, Sunshine Project, World War, Anthrax Vaccine Absorbed New!
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- Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-Up of Gulf War Syndrome by Patrick G. Eddington on page 121, and Back Matter
- in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Final report (CCS occasional paper ; no. 6) by Speyside Project in Back Matter
- Always Faithful (Angel's Touch) by Julie Miller in Back Matter
- Before and After by Rosellen Brown in Back Matter
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