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Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI
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Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Ryan Smithson (Author) (edit contributors)

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Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. It will change the way you feel about what it means to be an American.

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this book is a autobiography about Ryan Smithson a boy from New York that felt a need to serve our country after the terrorists attack on the twin towers onSeptember 11 2001.in this book Ryan tells about his personal accounts in the service both overseas and felings once back home i reccomend... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

this book is a autobiography about Ryan Smithson a boy from New York that felt a need to serve our country after the terrorists attack on the twin towers onSeptember 11 2001.in this book Ryan tells about his personal accounts in the service both overseas and felings once back home i reccomend this book to anyone who plan to enlist in our armed forces and anyone else who just wants to hear the truth about the feelings our soldiers get.

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  • “Our teacher, Mr. Barret, motioned to the television and said something I'll never forget."You guys are living history."”
    Ryan and Mr. Barret
  • “High School, I guessed, was just a chapter, something standing in the way of real freedom. High school didn't even seem real. It seemed so fake.”
    Ryan
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  • If you sacrifice your freedom, you’ll learn what freedom means. And once you know what freedom means, you’ll know why it’s worth fighting for.
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  • The chill is so fast it seems to drop down my spine. This sudden chill, it’s like the Grim Reaper tracing your spine with his fingernail.
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  • High school defines literature with terminology: metaphors, similes, imagery. But experience defines literature as more than words on paper. Not just escape, but more important, words that have the power to heal.
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  • We joke about the death we encounter, even these little tastes. Because when it’s humorous, it’s not scary or sad. We can’t dictate fear. We can’t control sadness. These feelings are beyond our reach. But we can control sarcasm, irony. In a lot of ways it’s our humor that allows us to conquer death. It’s our humor that lets us live. Even if it’s temporary, just for a day, it’s survival. We have to rise above death. We have to laugh in its face.
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  • It’s funny, but all I did besides sit in a dump truck during the ambush was write a story about it. It’s funny, but the story is what matters. The story is what changes, at least for a moment, the way these people feel. And what an empowering sensation it is to share it.
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  • Dozens of children line the road. They raise their hands. Their hands are empty.
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  • “Freedom has a taste, and for those who have fought for it the taste is so sweet, the protected will never know.”
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  • An infidel is anyone who doesn’t support the murder of infidels. What a convenient, self-serving philosophy.
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  • No one really wants to hear this story. And no one who hears this story will truly hear it. For the beauty of war is surrounded by the gruesome. And that damn eight-hour delay filtering everything.
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  • On a map of the world if the Persian Gulf is a mouth, Kuwait is the back of the throat. And when we’re done in Kuwait, she’ll swallow us, push us into the stomach. That violent, churning stomach.
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East Greenbush, New York, is a suburb of Albany.

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Part 1 - Red Phase
1. Stuck in the Fence
2. Reception
3. Basic Training Part 1
4. Maybe a Ring?
5. EQ Platoon
6. GI Joe Schmo
7. Cold Lighting
8. The Eight Hour Delay
9. The Town That Achmed Built
10. A Taste of Death

Part 2 - White Phase
11. Basic Training Part 2
12. Relief
13. War Miracles
14. A Taste of Home
15. Satan's Clothes Dryer
16. Hard Canvas
17. Pets
18. Bazoona Cat
19. Tears

Part 3 - Blue Phase
20. Basic Training Part 3
21. Best Day So Far
22. Irony
23. The End
24. Silence and Silhouettes
25. Words on Paper
26. The Innocent
27. Ghosts of War

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  1. Ryan Smithson (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-06-166471-7
Page Count: 336

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