Interviews with Veterans
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
In honor of Veterans Day, we've put together a list of some recent interviews with veterans and about veterans.
Iraq War Veterans 10 Years after the Invasion of Iraq
George Packer Reflects on the Iraq War
Iraq war veteran Phil Klay talks about his book of short stories, Redeployment: Stories about Soldiers
Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers talks about his novel The Yellow Birds.
Mac McCelland talks about the epidemic levels of PTSD among veterans, and how it’s now spreading to their families: Is PTSD Contagious?
Backstory: The History of PTSD
Roy Scranton, who served in the United States Army in Iraq 2003, returns to Baghdad 10 years later as sectarian violence and chaos threaten to overtake the country and after ISIS has taken Fallujah, Mosul, and other cities: An Iraq War Vet Returns to Find Baghdad on the Edge of Ruin
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Frankel talks about his experience going to Baghdad with a battalion of army infantry soldiers: The Good Soldiers and he follows up with the battalion after they return home from war: Soldiers at War and at Home.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dale Maharidge on his quest to find surviving members of his father’s WWII Marine Company: Bringing Mulligan Home
Bomber County: Poetry and World War II
John Nagl, retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army, discusses counterinsurgency strategy and Writing the Book on Counterinsurgency in War.
Filmmaker Dan Krauss looks at the moral tensions soldiers cope with in his documentary “The Kill Team": What Happened When a Soldier Tried to Report War Crimes in Afghanistan
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