My Sailor Brother's Grave
Author: Stephen B. Ball
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 6
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Author: Stephen B. Ball
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 6
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 6
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tom Sileo
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0306822385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the personal story of how two Naval academy roommates--US Marine Travis Manion and US Navy SEAL Brendan Looney--defined a generation's sacrifice after 9/11, and how their loved ones carry on in their memory Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, the President of the United States stood in Arlington National Cemetery. In his Memorial Day address, he extolled the courage and sacrifice of the two young men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, these two best friends and former roommates were now buried together--"brothers forever." Award-winning journalist Tom Sileo and Travis's father, former Marine colonel Tom Manion, come together to tell thisd intimate story, from Travis's incredible heroism on the streets of Fallujah to Brendan's anguished Navy SEAL training in the wake of his friend's death and his own heroism in the mountains of Afghanistan. Brothers Forever is a remarkable story of friendship, family, and war.
Author: Arnold Safroni-Middleton
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hester Blum
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1469606550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their contributions have been little recognized in literary history, seamen were important figures in the nineteenth-century American literary sphere. In the first book to explore their unique contribution to literary culture, Hester Blum examines the first-person narratives of working sailors, from little-known sea tales to more famous works by Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Richard Henry Dana. In their narratives, sailors wrote about how their working lives coexisted with--indeed, mutually drove--their imaginative lives. Even at leisure, they were always on the job site. Blum analyzes seamen's libraries, Barbary captivity narratives, naval memoirs, writings about the Galapagos Islands, Melville's sea vision, and the crisis of death and burial at sea. She argues that the extent of sailors' literacy and the range of their reading were unusual for a laboring class, belying the popular image of Jack Tar as merely a swaggering, profane, or marginal figure. As Blum demonstrates, seamen's narratives propose a method for aligning labor and contemplation that has broader applications for the study of American literature and history.
Author: Maturia Murray Ballou
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 420
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Holt Ingraham
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Published: 1853
Total Pages: 104
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