tinkeringlibrarian's review
2.0
I'm 1/42 of the way through and this is just not compelling narrative non-fiction! The author doesn't have a distinctive voice and many of the biographical snippets sound very similar. I do find the foreward in which the author basically says you have to serve in the military in order to be a hero pretty gross. It glosses over real problems like PTSD and serviceman violence, but it does at least include enlisted men and women of color. Its just terribly dry and I doubt a kid who wasn't desperate for more military biographies would be interested. For the age group, portions of the book just come across as really naive, such as the treatment of the extended "War on Terror" in the way it brushes over the U.S.'s longest military action and the President's ability to send troops anywhere until terrorism is over.
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