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Shade It Black: Death and After in Iraq by Goodell, Jessica
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781612000015
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Case Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
ISBN-10
1612000010
ISBN-13
9781612000015
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99623482
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shade It Black : Death and after in Iraq
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), Modern / General, Military
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-456135
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Shade It Black is a powerful, direct and honest account of one Marine's experiences in Iraq. It is a story of trauma and struggle, but also of integrity and ultimately growth. For me, the twin themes of trauma and posttraumatic growth in this book recalled Somerset Maugham's classic, The Razor's Edge., ...Goodell's verbal images are visceral, as keen as you will find in contemporary combat non fiction. As a student of co author Hearn's in 2006, Goodell never said a word about Iraq or Mortuary Affairs. Fortunately reader, she is talking and writing., In this absorbing memoir, Iraq veteran Goodell recounts her service, the brutal, sexist culture of the Marine Corps, and her struggle to adapt to the world upon her return from Iraq. After enlisting, Goodell volunteered to serve with the Marines' first declared Mortuary Attachment in Iraq's Al Anbar province, in 2004. The Mortuary Attachment platoon was responsible for doing "what had to be done but that no one wanted to know about": they "processed" the bodies of U.S. and other soldiers killed in combat, so that they could be identified and returned to their families. She describes in gruesome detail what this involved, and how it affects the soldiers who care for their comrades in this way. She rubbed up against a Marine Corp culture that includes routine indignities ...outright misogyny ... and sexist marching cadences. Coming home, unable to gain weight or sleep or relax and unprepared for post-service life among a population that had no idea of who she was or what she had gone through, Goodell began to come apart. Her memoir is a courageous settling of accounts, and a very good read
Dewey Decimal
956.7044/38
Table Of Content
Prologue 1. To Iraq 2. Mortuary Affairs 3. Camp TQ 4. Processing 5. Pressure 6. Convoys 7. Stigma 8. Pushed 9. Fire and Rain 10. Processing Iraqis 11. Toll 12. Immorality Plays 13. Personal Effects 14. Four Marines in the News 15. Mothers, Sisters, Daughters 16. Boom 17. Heads 18. The Girls' Generation 19. Life and Death 20. Anticipation 21. Home 22. Miguel 23. Searching 24. St. Louis 25. Seattle 26. A Break 27. Tucson 28. Nightmare 29. Chautauqua 30. Hope Epilogue Afterword Postscript Further Reading
Synopsis
In 2008, CBS' Chief Foreign Correspondent, Lara Logan, candidly speculated about the human side of the war in Iraq: "Tell me the last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier. What does that look like? Who in America knows what that looks like? Because I know what that looks like, and I feel responsible for the fact that no one else does..." Logan's query raised some important yet ignored questions: How did the remains of American service men and women get from the dusty roads of Fallujah to the flag-covered coffins at Dover Air Force Base? And what does the gathering of those remains tell us about the nature of modern warfare and about ourselves? These questions are the focus of Jess Goodell's story, Shade it Black: Death and After in Iraq. Jess enlisted in the Marines immediately after graduating from high school in 2001, and in 2004 she volunteered to serve in the Marine Corps' first officially declared Mortuary Affairs unit in Iraq. Her platoon was tasked with recovering and processing the remains of fallen soldiers. With sensitivity and insight, Jess describes her job retrieving and examining the remains of fellow soldiers lost in combat in Iraq, and the psychological intricacy of coping with their fates, as well as her own. Death assumed many forms during the war, and the challenge of maintaining one's own humanity could be difficult. Responsible for diagramming the outlines of the fallen, if a part was missing she was instructed to "shade it black." This insightful memoir also describes the difficulties faced by these Marines when they transition from a life characterized by self-sacrifice to a civilian existence marked very often by self-absorption. In sharing with us the story of her own journey, Goodell also helps us to better understand how PTSD affects female veterans. With the assistance of John Hearn, she has written one of the most unique accounts of America's current wars overseas yet seen., How do the remains of American service men and women get from the dusty roads of Fallujah to the flag-covered coffins at Dover Air Force Base? And what does the gathering of those remains tell us about the nature of modern warfare and about ourselves? These questions are the focus of Jess Goodell's story. With sensitivity and insight, Jess describe
LC Classification Number
DS79.767
As told to
Hearn, John
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