The Return: A Field Manual for Life After Combat. Have you read it? Any thoughts?

2015-05-21T07:32:25-04:00

The Return looks at life after combat exactly like that—there is no magical fix. It’s not about putting a motto on a bumper sticker to feel good about yourself. It’s about doing the work to get better, but in ways that actually make sense.

The primary method for conveying this concept comes in a way that combat veterans are all too familiar with—brutal honesty. Author David J. Danelo doesn’t pull any punches because he knows that doing so would directly subvert his entire purpose.

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The Return: A Field Manual for Life After Combat

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Response by SGT Kevin Brown made May 21 at 2015 9:02 AM

2015-05-21T09:02:59-04:00

I have not read it, I will check it out. Many of the books I have read about coming home, church it up and talk to you about coming home like we are 5th graders who witnessed something naughty. Thanks for sharing this.

Response by CPT Bob Moore made May 21 at 2015 9:23 AM

2015-05-21T09:23:20-04:00

Thanks for the post. Seems like an interesting book and I think I may order it. I came back from Iraq in 2007, but it seems like the transition is never really over.

Here are a couple of the reviews on the book from amazon:

“Because every person’s war experience is unique, so is their return home. The combat veterans’ reintegration to the society they left is a journey that’s been made by returning warriors since before Homer first chronicled it. In this illuminating book, David Danelo provides a worthy perspective for making sense of a largely incommunicable journey and how he came to reconcile the polarities of coming home.”

— General James N. Mattis, USMC (ret.)

“The Return is the only book I’ve ever read that compelled me to keep reading... but to go as slowly as possible to savor and ponder each word. Written with the skill and precision of a philosophical sniper who stays awake for days, Danelo looks for one chance to expand your views on war, peace and a soldier’s most difficult mission in life—returning to civilian life with people who don’t really understand what he went through.”

— Matt Furey, author, The Unbeatable Man