Episode 59 : Veterans Day with Marine Jerad Alexander

It's Veterans Day & United States Marine Corps Veteran Jerad Alexander joins Tell Us The Truth to highlight his new book Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War. Listen as Jerad details stages in his life including growing up on Military bases raised on masculine fantasies of heroism and patriotism, to becoming a Marine and serving from 1998 - 2006 to writing about much of what he had spent his childhood dreaming of was a mirage. Jerad details wrestling with the moral complexity that motivated him to serve in what has revealed itself to be an unwinnable war. This is a heck of a conversation with an Author and Veteran detailing his Youth, USMC Service and Journalism work thereafter.

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