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Standing Down: From Warrior to Civilian was created for Talking Service, the Great Books Foundation’s initiative to develop reading and discussion programs for veterans, as well as their families, friends, service providers, and caregivers. Standing Down includes:
- Fourty-four selections, from Homer's Iliad to personal accounts of members of the service who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, and memoirs that speak to past experiences, concerns, and aspirations of those who have served in the military and made the often-difficult transition back into civilian life.
- Iliad*
- The Melian Dialogue
- Henry VI, Part I*
- Letters
- On Discipline In Democratic Armies
- Gettysburg Address
- The Charge of the Light Brigade
- On Caregiving
- War and Peace*
- The Moral Equivalent of War
- Why War?
- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
- The Veteran
- Italian Ordeal Surprises Congress
- Poems
- To a Conscript of 1940
- Soldier’s Home
- Reporting the War in Tunisia
- Guests of the Nation
- A Negro Looks at This War
- These Terrible Records of War
- Tarawa: The Story of a Battle*
- The Price We Pay In Italy
- Revisiting My Memoir
- Village
- It Is Dangerous to Read Newspapers
- A Rumor of War*
- What It Is Like to Go to War*
- In Pharaoh’s Army*
- The Things They Carried*
- Facing It
- A Piece of My Heart*
- A Journey Taken with My Son
- Reclamation
- The Good Soldiers*
- The Boy Without a Flag
- Perimeter Watch
- Dust to Dust*
- Medevac Missions
- You Know When the Men Are Gone*
- Veterans
- The Hardest Letter to Write
- Shallow Hands
- To the Fallen
*Indicates a selection from a longer work.
