As He Launches Book Tour for "The War Comes Home"
January 13, 2009, Aaron Glantz Launches Book Tour for "The War Comes Home". Check to see if he'll be in your town soon! VCS urges our members to buy and to read Aaron's masterpiece effort to chronicle the plight of the veterans sent to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Our VCS review of his excellent book
Meet Aaron Glantz
THE WAR COMES HOME IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
On Wednesday Janury 28 at 7pm Aaron Glantz will speak at City Lights Books at Broadway and Columbus in San Francisco alongside San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar and Iraq war veteran Walter Williams. More info at City Lights
THE WAR COMES HOME IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
On Saturday January 31 at 8pm, Aaron Glantz will speak alongside media critic Norman Solomon and Bay Area Iraq and Afhganistan war veterans in a benefit for KPFA Radio. First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison Street
THE WAR COMES HOME IN DENVER, COLORADO
On Tuesday February 3 at 7pm Aaron Glantz will speak at the Mercury Cade alongside area Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans in a benefit for KGNU Community Radio, 2199 California St. More info at KGNU Community Radio
THE WAR COMES HOME IN BOULDER, COLORADO
On Wednesday February 4 at 7pm Aaron Glantz will speak at Boulder's First Congregational Church alongside area Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans in a benefit for KGNU Community Radio; Broadway at Pinel, More info at KGNU Community Radio
THE WAR COMES HOME IN LOS ANGELES
On Thursday February 12th at 7pm Aaron Glantz will speak at Skylight Books alongside area Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. 1814 Vermont Street. More info at Sky Light Books
"The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans"Veterans for Common Sense highly recommends this well-written documentary about how poorly our Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are being treated. As the Houston Chronicle editorial board wrote on December 14, 2008, "Since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and all of the resulting harms to soldiers, civilians, economies and constitutional principles, no segment of society has been more abused and neglected than returning U.S. military veterans."
DescriptionThe War Comes Home is the first book to systematically document the U.S. government's neglect of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Aaron Glantz, who reported extensively from Iraq during the first three years of this war and has been reporting on the plight of veterans ever since, levels a devastating indictment against the Bush administration for its bald neglect of soldiers and its disingenuous reneging on their benefits. Glantz interviewed more than one hundred recent war veterans, and here he intersperses their haunting first-person accounts with investigations into specific concerns, such as the scandal at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. This timely book does more than provide us with a personal connection to those whose service has cost them so dearly. It compels us to confront how America treats its veterans and to consider what kind of nation deifies its soldiers and then casts them off as damaged goods.
Reviews of "The War Comes Home" --
"A breathtaking rebuke to government hypocrisy and an overdue contribution to gaining critical public awareness of this official neglect."—Publishers Weekly
"Aaron Glantz is one of the truly outstanding young journalists of our times." —Bob McChesney, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy, and founder of Free Press
"One of the many scandals of the war in Iraq is how the administration has betrayed our returning servicemen. I'm grateful that the facts surrounding these tragedies are finally being exposed."—Paul Haggis, Academy-Award-winning director of Crash and In the Valley of Elah, screenwriter of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
"A must-read for those who claim to support our troops."—Robert G. Gard, Lt. General, U.S. Army (ret.)
"The treatment by the Bush Administration of America's returning veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is one of the saddest chapters in American history. This story is painfully documented by Aaron Glantz. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to make the phrase, 'Support the Troops,' more than a slogan."—Former US Senator Max Cleland
"A fitting tribute to what these men and women fought and risked their lives and well-being for."—Gerald Nicosia, author of Home to War
"This superbly documented and eloquent book is a clarion call for honesty, compassion, outrage, and an end to the lies that cause so much suffering in far-off countries and in our own nation."—Norman Solomon, author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
"Aaron Glantz draws on his eyewitness experiences of reporting in Iraq to bring the courage and the suffering of our troops into vivid relief. The War Comes Home exposes how physical and mental injuries plague our returning servicemen and what we can do about it."—Linda Bilmes, coauthor of The Three Trillion Dollar War
"Weep, America, cringe, America. We talk a good game about honoring all those who go into harm's way for our sake and caring for those who get physically and psychologically broken, but do we go beyond fine words and a few gold-plated flagship medical facilities? Are we walking the walk? Are we getting it right? Aaron Glantz is in our face on the military treatment facilities, the VA, and civilian society at large."—Jonathan Shay, MD, PhD, author of Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America. MacArthur Fellow
"Aaron Glantz reports on the human cost of war, what it does physically and emotionally to those young men and women who carry out industrial slaughter. He rips apart the myths we tell ourselves about war and illustrates, in painful detail, the dark psychological holes that those who have been through war's trauma endure and will always endure. He reminds us that the essence of war is not glory, heroism, and honor but death."—Chris Hedges, former New York Times foreign correspondent, author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
"We should all be reading people like Greg Palast and Aaron Glantz."—Al Kennedy, The Guardian (UK)
The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans
