Falcon's Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir - Couverture souple

Donnelly, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0313361045 ISBN 13 : 9780313361043

Editeur : Praeger, 1998

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

When Major Michael Donnelly was instructing his U.S. Air Force student pilots, he used to tell them three things: "Timing is everything; it's nice to be lucky; and there is no justice." Highly decorated fighter pilot, proud young patriot, loyal friend with a mischievous sense of humor, loving husband and father of two, he could not have imagined the tragic meaning those words would assume just a few years after his tour of duty in Desert Storm. In 1996 Major Donnelly was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease, at the unusually young age of 35; the onset of this illness marked the beginning of a kind of torture beyond the scope of even the most rigorous military survival training. Betrayed by his body, eventually paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, he experienced another betrayal perhaps even more difficult to comprehend--betrayal by his country. For despite the fact that over 110,000 Desert Storm veterans are sick, many dying of mysterious cancers and neurological diseases, including more than ten times the normal incidence of ALS--and despite all evidence pointing to U.S. troops having been dosed by low levels of Iraqi nerve agents and exposed to chemical weapons' fallout--the Pentagon adamantly denies any connection between their illnesses and their service in the Gulf War. Falcon's Cry: A Desert Storm Memoir, Michael Donnelly's unforgettable story, is his courageous attempt to unearth the truth and force an acknowledgment of that truth by the government he and his fellow veterans defended with their lives.

Biographie de l'auteur :

MAJOR MICHAEL DONNELLY retired from the U.S. Air Force in October 1996 after 15 years of active duty./e He serves on Connecticut's Persian Gulf Veterans' Information Commission, formed at the order of the legislature to assist Desert Storm veterans in receiving the benefits and support they earned. He lives with his wife Susan and their two young children in South Windsor, Connecticut. Donnelly /f Denise /r with /b DENISE DONNELLY, a professional writer and the sister of Major Donnelly, has been a fiction editor at the Missouri Review and has taught English and creative writing at Tufts University and the University of Missouri./e She lives in Rockport, Massachusetts.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Praeger
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0313361045
• ISBN 13: 9780313361043
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 272