Greetings from Afghanistan, Send more Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country

This book explains the real life adventure in Afghanistan of ETT(Embedded Training Team) Captain Benjamin Tupper. Tupper originally posted up each chapter daily as a blog on the Internet, but eventually grouped these blogs into one whole book. Greetings from Afghanistan shows the courage of the National Guard ETT life in Afghanistan, showing their commitment to the United States. These brave soldiers are doing what it takes to survive each day, surviving as if it were their last.
                 In my opinion, this book shows an extreme amount of being bias but as well as not showing any. To Captain Tupper, he respects the Afghan people. The book gives a stereotype of the Afghan people, thinking they are all part of the Taliban, giving us the idea back in the states that all of them are bad. We root for the American forces overseas but we also have to reconsider thinking about the people of Afghanistan. They too are human, giving them the same edge as us Americans. We typically choose the side of the Americans because we are simply are Americans, if that makes sense.
                 Greetings from Afghanistan: Send more Ammo helps me improve my research because this book is based off of real events happening to the soldiers overseas. The book itself even has a chapter of PTSD, understanding what events that flash back into Tupper's life.

Tupper, Benjamin. Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country. New York: NAL Caliber, 2010. Print.


                     

                 The book The Memory of You is about an prisoner of war captured during the Vietnam War. Six years later, he is reclaimed but during the gruesome years of torture, he has lost his memory. He doesn't recall anything before joining the Military. The Military informs Lieutenant Matthew Foster that he has a wife but he does not remember anything. But the thing is, his love back home is getting married and the military is soon to inform Abby that he is alive and coming back home.
                 In this book, I believe biased is being shown through Matthew's shoes. In the back of our heads, we want Matthew to find his love that he lost during the time of warfare. Even though Abby has moved on and found someone else, we believe that "love" will guide them back together and that there will be a happy ending.

               The Memory of You gives an idea of how PTSD can be formed, and the after effects of warfare. It shows readers how bad war is and what can be gained, what can be lost, and what can never be replaced.

Kellogg, Laurie. The Memory of You. LK, 2012. Print.