Some nights Clara would sit there , the only woman , listening to these men talk about conditions of the Negro north and south and praising Marcus Garvey and damning Marcus Garvey , and praising Frederick Douglass and praising Booker T.
As the U.S. military prepares to leave Iraq, Lieutenant Jack Porter becomes obsessed with the story of a lost American soldier who had a romance with a local sheikh's daughter and tries to discover what happened to him.
High school sucks.
The US military is preparing to withdraw from Iraq, and newly-minted lieutenant Jack Porter struggles to accept how it's happening -- through alliances with warlords who have Arab and American blood on their hands.
High school sucks.
Pulling readers into the captivating immediacy of a conflict that cans shift from drudgery to devastation at any moment, Youngblood provides a startling new dimension to both the moral complexity of war and its psychological toll.