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Service : a Navy SEAL at war
The author, a Navy SEAL, returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him, and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything, including themselves, for the sake of family, nation, and freedom. In this book, we follow the author to Iraq, where he returns to the battlefield as a member of SEAL Team 5 to help take on the most dangerous city in the world, Ramadi, the capital of war-torn Al Anbar Province. There, in six months of high-intensity urban combat, he would be part of what has been called the greatest victory in the history of U.S. Special Operations forces. We also return to Afghanistan and Operation Redwing, where he offers powerful new details about his miraculous rescue. Throughout, he reflects on what it really means to take on a higher calling, about the men he's seen lose their lives for their country, and the legacy of those who came and bled before.
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LONE SURVIVOR
Cost to Ahmad Shah: perhaps two or three fighters according to the best estimates, though not according to Lone Survivor, where, shooting-gallery style, the battered SEALs score head shot after head shot on a force alleged to number two hundred. In a brief, high-tension scene Berg's Luttrell argues for mercy against his desire and better judgment on the basis of simple self-interest: \"They got guys in Leavenworth doing twenty [just] for taking home trophy guns!\" In other words, executing the man, the youth, and the boy is unacceptable, not because they're unarmed and it would be prima facie a criminal act under military law, but because the Taliban, the liberals, the liberal media, and the media- kowtowing Navy will nail the luckless SEALs to the mast. The agonizing moral dilemma about unarmed prisoners taken behind enemy lines is textbook; the protective slant to Luttrell's argument is comprehensible to anyone; his belief, rage, and guilt (in the book) that he alone, under the evil influence of conscience and law, doomed the mission and sealed the fate of nineteen Americans (tragedies, moreover, that required additional contributing causes beyond his control) is worthy of Dostoevsky.
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DID SERVANT-LEADERSHIP SAVE THE LONE SURVIVOR?
Spears identifies 10 critical characteristics of servant-leadership. These include listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people, and building community. Most, if not all, of Spears' 10 critical characteristics are embodied in Pashtunwali, a centuries-old unwritten Pashtun moral code that governs all activities of Pashtun life, from early childhood to death, including activities related to collective decision-making, dispute resolution, communal interaction and various other obligations. One of these guidelines commits the followers (practitioners) of Pashtunwali to protect and provide asylum to any guest seeking the Afghan community's assistance. It is this very moral code that is personified through the choices and actions of Mohammad Gulab, the Afghan village leader who in 2005 saved the life of Us Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell, the lone survivor of a doomed US military mission in northeastern Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. Here, Bordere and Mixon explore the servant-leadership aspects embodied by the various participants in the military operation and provide a brief review of the academic literature on servant-leadership, with particular focus on studies on servant-leadership in the cultures of the Middle and Near East countries.
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On Reciprocity, Revenge, and Replication: A Rejoinder to Walzer, McMahan, and Keohane
In their contributions to the symposium “Just War and Unjust Soldiers,” Michael Walzer, Jeff McMahan, and Robert O. Keohane add greatly to our understanding of how best to study and apply just war doctrine to real-world conflicts. We argue, however, that they underestimate both the degree to which the American public seeks revenge, rather than just reciprocity, and the extent of popular acceptance of violations of noncombatant immunity by soldiers perceived to be fighting for a just cause. We call on empirical political scientists, lawyers, psychologists, and historians to engage with moral philosophers and political theorists in debates about the influence of just war theory and the laws of armed conflict.
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Responding to the Lack of Representation in the ELA Canon
In today's high school ELA classroom, there is sometimes a disconnect among readers' interests, identities, and cultures and the works that teachers require students to read. When Hedgespeth was in high school, the canonical texts on her reading lists were written almost exclusively by White male authors. Although she didn't realize it at the time, she now realize that they only read two novels written by female authors: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and an excerpt from Alice Walker's The Color Purple. This lack of female authors in the curriculum negatively affected her concept of literature and her beliefs about herself as a writer. She entered student teaching hoping that she would be able to instill a love of reading, writing, and communication in her students. As a student teacher, she was lucky enough to teach under cooperating teachers in a district that encourages student-led learning and allows student choice.
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