Lt. Col. Tim Maxwell prided himself on being a hard-core Marine,a patriotic Devil Dog on his third tour of Iraq. Then his brain was shredded with mortar shrapnel. Today, Maxwell has a large angry scar on the left side of his head. He forgets words, his wife has to read to him, and he drags one foot when he walks. Yet he works twelve-hour days as commander of the Wounded Warrior Barracks at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. For these warriors, Iraq and Afghanistan will never quite be in the past. And the struggle never ends. Other stories in Wounded Warriors depict life inside an L.A. crack gang, ex-pat Vietnam War veterans in Thailand, and five days in Las Vegas with basketball anti-hero Kobe Bryant,all of it captured stylishly by the writer who has been called the beat poet of American journalism."
- ISBN10 1322352054
- ISBN13 9781322352053
- Publish Date 1 January 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Da Capo Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 289
- Language English