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Welcome to StacyBannerman.com
"When the War Came Home is a war story and a love story, passionate and personal, and because of that a more powerful indictment of the war than any cool political analysis." Howard Zinn
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Stacy Bannerman
...activist, author, WHEN THE WAR CAME HOME: An Inside Account of Citizen Soldiers and The Families Left Behind (March, 2006, Continuum Publishing)
Stacy Bannerman's husband was a 43-year-old Sergeant First Class in the Army National Guard who never thought he'd go to war. Yet in October 2003 he was called to active duty as an Infantry Mortar Platoon Sergeant, and didn't return home until spring 2005.
Struggling to find a way to honor her husband while opposing the war, and outraged by the administration's lack of support for weekend warriors, Bannerman joined Military Families Speak Out. MFSO galvanized the country by breaking the traditional code of silence of military families to protest Operation Iraqi Freedom, the most controversial military action in U.S. history.
Part memoir, part wake up call, When the War Came Home brings the plight of reservists and their families to the public eye for the first time. Of the many books written about the war in Iraq, this one will be the first to provide a personal account of the emotional impact of the war that polarized a nation and the unreported realities of the experience on the home front, something shared by thousands of reservists' spouses and partners.
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