"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." In the dark days following 9/11, this aphorism fell out of favor, but it was once espoused by a US senator in support of violence that cost two thousand people their lives in a country the size of Maryland. Deployed to a US Navy base in Northern Ireland, Richard Chase watches as arms, ammunition, and explosives purchased with money from Irish Americans flow into Northern Ireland for use against the United States' British allies. IEDs, car bombs, kidnappings, and ...
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"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." In the dark days following 9/11, this aphorism fell out of favor, but it was once espoused by a US senator in support of violence that cost two thousand people their lives in a country the size of Maryland. Deployed to a US Navy base in Northern Ireland, Richard Chase watches as arms, ammunition, and explosives purchased with money from Irish Americans flow into Northern Ireland for use against the United States' British allies. IEDs, car bombs, kidnappings, and shootings are daily events, as is collateral damage to US military staff and equipment. When Senator Ted Kennedy demands British troops leave Northern Ireland and calls for the nation to unite, Chase deals with the consequences of living in a country rapidly devolving into a killing field. The pressure tears his marriage apart and leaves him grasping for reasons to exist and questioning the actions of his fellow Americans-many of whom will only fully realize the devastation terrorism brings in the aftermath of 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombings. A moving memoir, Domicile reminds us of a time when many Americans supported terrorism and the tragedies spawned by their support.
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