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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
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Date  Helpful Rating 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  Not at all easy, but COMPELLING...Posted: 2/25/2007A review of Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience by Allyn0473 This book and subsequent film is an amazingly crafted view of humanity. The men and women who contributed their stories, their thoughts and their feelings are utterly human. Parents and children, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, best friends and strangers. These are the slices of
everyday life. Far from routine, but the life each of them is living
and many are dying for each day.
It is poignant, it is heart-wrenching, it is make-no-mistake graphic and it is, in an odd sort of way, uplifting. It touched me in such a visceral way that I
dreamed it. I didnt dream about the stories, I woke up feeling inside them.
It shows our men and women in uniform not as Saints or Monsters, not as Bad Guys or Heroes. There are plenty of heroic things going on,there is saintly compassion. There is Death -- sometimes at our side and sometime at our hands. There is doubt, there is fear, there is love and longing shared by out troops in the field and the families and friends at home. There is humility and humanity. It is war.
The experiences they share are nothing short of powerful how things that are the activities of everyday life take on such a different sheen in the
light of war, in the face of death and in the commitment to duty. The troops, the families, the friends are all doing the very best they can to live a relatively
ordinary life under extraordinary circumstances. They have my unending
respect because, among many other things, they mostly succeed while
doing jobs that most of them never expected to have to do.
It isnt easy. It may be something you need to see in small bites. It is compelling, though, and it is humanity. It is our Brothers and Sisters and Children and Loved Ones. It is all of Humanities Children. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  The story of a warPosted: 2/8/2007A review of Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience by Charles1030 These stories of heartache, confusion, and anger combine to form a gallery of art that illuminates the conundrums of warfare and testifies to the philosophical instincts of the American soldier. Was this review helpful? Sign In 1-2 of 2 Per Page | ||
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