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War Stories From the Forgotten Soldiers Paperback – November 25, 2019

by Edward W Beal (Author)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
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They suffer physical injury and moral trauma as they fight in wars to protect us -- while most of us are unaware of their efforts. If we send our soldiers to war, we also are responsible for welcoming them home and helping them heal. By reading these stories as told to psychiatrist, Dr. Ted Beal, Americans learn to be present to the families, friends and neighbors who served in our place. War Stories From the Forgotten Soldiers is a collection of 31 riveting stories told by soldiers and heard and experienced by Dr. Beal, the professional listener. This unique narrative weaves Beal's clinical observations with the veterans war stories of trauma and its treatments. Following each essay are Dr. Beal's thoughts and questions generated by each soldier's experience. Read and learn why some war trauma is so monumental that it cannot be contained within an individual soldier or family but must become part of our national collective responsibility to them.
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  1. Print length
    228 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Koehler Books
  4. Publication date
    November 25, 2019
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.54 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1633939472
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1633939479
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Koehler Books (November 25, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 228 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1633939472
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1633939479
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.54 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

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In offering us War Stories From The Forgotten Soldiers, the author invites us to hear various morally and emotionally distorted world views from dedicated patriots whose psychic wounds have them struggling to keep their very souls alive. Author Beal is most compelling in his closing observation that “Knowing a soldier personally is perhaps the most powerful intervention of all”, and in his plea to the reader: “America needs you”. Read this book.J.R. Quirk, Author: Compassionate Warrior – A Memoir
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Lorne M. Ruby MD
5.0 out of 5 stars A call to conscience
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2020
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Ted is a good friend...a classmate in a Psychiatry Fellowship 50 years ago. While I hope that each of us in that small group has contributed in some modest measure to the common weal, Ted's work and book is a wonderful gift to us all...and a call to duty to every American.
His accounts of his encounters with our servicemen and women bring painfully to life the physical, the psychological, and the moral wounds that they have suffered. One cannot help but be deeply moved and profoundly grateful to acknowledge that they have done so on our behalf.
Among his ideas: We have a binding responsibility to welcome back and to reintegrate these brave men and women into civilian society...to collectively share, and to attempt to help bring healing to their grief and moral injury. We owe it to them to be actively engaged with our political leaders in deciding why, when, and for what we are prepared to go to war. As Ted points out, we would not be absent or silent partners in these decisions were it our sons, our daughters, our grandchildren, and our neighbors who were being asked to bear this burden and sacrifice. There is also much merit in his suggestion that all of us should be called upon to contribute in one of a variety of ways in National Service to our Country and Society.
This is a most cogent and thought-provoking book...a powerful call to our collective consciences. Thank you, Ted, for your lifetime of compassionate caring, and for this remarkable account of both our service members' and your own humanity. This book should be read and considered by all!
Lorne M. Ruby, MD.
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Tom Daniels
5.0 out of 5 stars Every American should read this book
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2023
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As a Veteran who served during the Vietnam war, and having a son who is an Afghanistan combat veteran, this book tells the real story of wars impact on Veterans & their families.

It also points out the disconnect of civilians who take for granted their lives without compassion for those that serve, especially those Veterans that have been injured. (Less then 1% of the US population enters military service)

I highly recommend this book for all Americans.
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Leslie Beck
5.0 out of 5 stars What We Can Do For Those Who Have Served Our Country Once They Return Home
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020
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'War Stories From The Forgotten Soldiers' was a book I could not put down. Edward W. Beal, MD entwines his expertise as a psychiatrist with a gift of story telling which is more akin to having an in-depth conversation than turning printed pages, one by one. I spend half my year on the island of Guam and much of the other half of the year in northern New Mexico. Both areas have a deep connection to the military. I have been humbled by the service personnel I have come to know. They put their lives on the line for our country day in and day out, assuming the huge burden of our military presence throughout the world, without most Americans having any idea of what this commitment entails. I thought I had an idea, but after reading Dr. Beal's book I realized I have been mostly clueless to what happens in these modern military conflicts. I now have a new respect and much improved understanding what soldiers have gone through (mostly without ever saying anything to anyone) and how I might be of some tiny bit of help by asking them about their experiences rather than simply saying "thank you." Thank you Dr. Beal, for making the stories of these forgotten soldiers real.
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4.0 out of 5 stars What is the least we owe those who serve us at the pointy end of the spear?
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2020
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My old men's book club took this up for examination and discussion. A bit out of the ordinary for us. But, with a membership that includes a few psychiatrists and psychologists, some lawyers and a few veterans, it provided a good vehicle for examining a topic we rarely confront. Beal's graphic examples of the trauma endured by volunteer soldiers from our recent middle-eastern military engagements, including those who serve them, was enlightening. There wasn't universal agreement with all of his analysis or the suggested remedies, but most agreed that as civilians ,we need to be more attuned to the experience of these soldiers, draw them out and listen to them. Maybe that's the least we can do. It was worth the investment and time spent in reflection.
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Michelle W
5.0 out of 5 stars About the war and beyond the war
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2020
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The forgotten soldiers from the lengthy war triggered since 9/11 become vividly appealing to us through the touching stories told by Dr. Edward Beal, an academic psychiatrist with humanitarian heart and mind. The wounds in the soldiers’ flesh, brains, and mental health stay with them for the rest of their lives and impact their loved ones and families. Dr. Beal didn’t stop there by only telling the war stories. He went ahead inviting readers to contemplate the meaning, necessity, and legitimacy of this war, and the wars in history, which cost numerous lives who were not responsible for the cause of the wars. When we finish the book, the question that Dr. Beal raised over and over again still lingers: what gave privileged ‘wise men’ the authority sending other human beings in a harm’s way to the wars that were often ill-conceived and badly executed, at almost all levels? This is not only an American problem, but a problem of mankind.
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Joseph C. Benedict
5.0 out of 5 stars An important book that all caring persons should read
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2020
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To say this is an unusual book would be an understatement on many levels. Gaining insight into the emotional troubles which develop in our military members through the eyes of an experienced psychiatrist is invaluable for those of us who have not been subjected to such psychic injury. The very fact that Dr Beal felt compelled to express the poignant results of multiple years of telepsychiatry in his well organized book is an indication of his deep compassion for these individuals, rather than just doing his job. Any reader should be moved, as he was. The book should be read as a minimum by anyone even remotelyinvolved in sending our men and women off to military duties as described therein. J. Benedict CDR MC USN Ret
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