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An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us

God, my father, and the war that came between us

by James Carroll

279 pages · 1996

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Joe Carroll was an Air Force lieutenant who designated Vietnamese targets for American bombs. Joe's son, James, began adulthood by fulfilling his father's abandoned dream of joining the priesthood. But soon a father's hopes for his son--and a son's peace with his father--were ruined, when James chose to protest the war and all it stood for.

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