"While Sgt. Francis D. Sommer was fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, his father stood on a street corner in Kansas City with an antiwar sign. Losing Francis . . . reconciles that seeming contrast in a courageous dive into the personal cost of America's wars. Fusing his backdrop of these wars, Robert F. Sommer exposes the disconnect between the world of war and the universe of no-war in a nation that often seems preoccupied only with amusing itself."--Page 4 of cover.
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"While Sgt. Francis D. Sommer was fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, his father stood on a street corner in Kansas City with an antiwar sign. Losing Francis . . . reconciles that seeming contrast in a courageous dive into the personal cost of America's wars. Fusing his backdrop of these wars, Robert F. Sommer exposes the disconnect between the world of war and the universe of no-war in a nation that often seems preoccupied only with amusing itself."--Page 4 of cover.
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