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Americans soldiers severely injured in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq often face an uphill battle rebuilding their lives while recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
To get a better sense of this struggle, Rice University anthropologist Zoe Wool spent a year at Walter Reed getting to know many of these soldiers and their families. Her work, which upends the notion of the heroic wounded veteran, became the book After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed.
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The Claim of Sacrifice: An Excerpt from Zoe Wool’s After War (Duke University Press)
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