Panel: Surviving Iraq Soldiers' Stories
Veterans and Service Members Association (VASMA) will host a panel of UMass students, faculty, and staff members sharing their stories of the military, the global war on terror, experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, and living with the consequences of war after returning home.
"The Iraq war is being fought by an all-volunteer army recruited from working-class America, ordinary citizens in uniform. Volunteers sign up with the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy as active duty, Reserve or National Guard, serving when as young as 18 and as old as 60. These men and women are the stars of Tripp’s powerfully moving book: Surviving Iraq: Soldiers’ Stories is the result of a close collaboration between the author and thirty veterans who volunteered to tell their stories of the invasion, occupation, and ongoing insurgency in Iraq.
"Elise Forbes Tripp is a graduate of Harvard and has a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. A former international relations counselor for UN affairs at the World Bank, she is an adjunct professor of American history at Holyoke Community College in Massachusetts."
