Tammy Duckworth
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
ix, 275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
The Iraq War veteran traces her impoverished childhood, her decision to join the Army, the months spent recovering from the RPG attack that shot down her helicopter and nearly took her life, and her subsequent mission of serving in elected office.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (8 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2004, an Iraqi grenade blew through the cockpit of Tammy Duckworth's US Army Black Hawk helicopter. The explosion, which destroyed her legs and mangled her right arm, was a turning point in her life. But, as Duckworth shows in this memoir, that moment was just one in a lifetime of extraordinary turns.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Today, America has nearly eighteen million living military veterans, from the Greatest Generation to men and women coming home from recent tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. They join the now-silent ranks of American veterans reaching back to our earliest conflict, the Revolutionary War.