The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War

✍ Scribed by Dreazen, Yochi

• Book ID: 108607775
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780385347839

✦ Synopsis

The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons--one to suicide and one in combat--and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces' suicide epidemic.

Major General Mark Graham is a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism inspires his sons, Jeff and Kevin, to pursue military careers of their own. His wife Carol is a teacher who holds the family together while Mark's career takes them to bases around the world. When Kevin and Jeff die within nine months of each other--Kevin commits suicide and Jeff is killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq--Mark and Carol are astonished by the drastically different responses their sons' deaths receive from the Army. While Jeff is lauded as a hero, Kevin's death is met with silence, evidence of the terrible stigma that surrounds suicide and mental illness in the military. Convinced that their sons died fighting different battles, Mark and Carol commit themselves to transforming the institution...