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Shared Courage: A Marine Wife's Story of Strength and Service
Shared Courage A Marine Wife's Story of Strength and Service Author:Michelle Keener ?They also serve who only stand and wait.? — ?John Milton, ?On His Blindness? — Their husbands went to war in Iraq; they went to war in their living rooms. Shared Courage is the story of one woman’s experience as the wife of a Marine officer serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom. A colorful, sometimes heartbreaking, always inspiring acc... more »ount of how military life affected one family, it is also the story of an entire community of Marine wives--the family of the American forces.
Michelle Keener describes the trials and triumphs of keeping a military family together--from her wedding to her husband’s assignment to 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines (the famous ?McCoy’s Marines?) and the birth of a daughter in the base hospital. She brings to poignant life the uncertainty she and other Marine wives experienced; their fear in the face of media reports of the advance on Fallujah, one of the war’s most harrowing battles; the gut-wrenching knock on the door, with a Marine in dress blues standing on the front step; the coming together in shared grief over the loss of a friend’s husband; and eventually, the elation of having one’s own husband return home safely.
With this book, Keener gives a voice to all military wives--those who receive little notice and no medals, and yet sacrifice in countless ways. Even as they stood and waited, these wives also served.