The Last Deployment How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq

• मुख्य लेखक: Lemer, Bronson (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Madison The University of Wisconsin Press 2011
• विषय: Gender studies, gender groups; Autobiography & memoir; Gay and lesbian studies; Current affairs
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In 2003, after serving five and a half years as a carpenter in a North Dakota National Guard engineer unit, Bronson Lemer was ready to leave the military behind. But six months short of completing his commitment to the army, Lemer was deployed on a yearlong tour of duty to Iraq. Leaving college life behind in the Midwest, he yearns for a lost love and quietly dreams of a future as an openly gay man outside the military. He discovers that his father's lifelong example of silent strength has taught him much about being a man, and these lessons help him survive in a war zone and to conceal his sexuality, as he is required to do by the U.S. military. The Last Deployment is a moving, provocative chronicle of one soldier's struggle to reconcile military brotherhood with self-acceptance.