The soldiers’ war, some argue, is the real war: a no-hindsight hot zone where impossible decisions and irrevocable choices play out in a split second.
With that in mind, the National Endowment for the Arts has launched Operation Homecoming. It introduces some of America’s finest writers to some of America’s finest, in the hope that some soldiers will transcribe their memories into memoirs.
Guests:
Bobbie Ann Mason, writer in residence at the University of Kentucky and author of “In Country”
Andrew Exum, author of “This Man’s Army: A Soldier’s Story on the Front Lines of the War on Terrorism”
Lt. Col. Joel Berry, logistician for the Second Marine Expeditionary Force and an attendee of Operation Homecoming at Camp Lejeune.