{"id":8414,"date":"2019-12-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/?p=8414"},"modified":"2019-12-09T10:51:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T18:51:18","slug":"blog-tour-behind-friendly-fire-by-mark-mcgraw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/blog-tour-behind-friendly-fire-by-mark-mcgraw\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Tour: Behind Friendly Fire by Mark McGraw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Title: Behind Friendly Lines: Memoirs of a US Marine in Chile
Author: Mark McGraw
Genre: Travel, Military, Religion, Personal Memoir
Release Date: November 04, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Behind Friendly Lines<\/em> is the story of a US Marine officer serving as the only foreigner in the Chilean Marine Corps\u2019 most important combat unit. Lieutenant Colonel Mark McGraw arrives with his young family to Chile full of optimism and certainty about his ability to navigate the obstacles of language, customs, and security, but quickly runs headlong into difficulties presented by a tragedy in the home, a commander initially hostile to Americans, and the isolation of his family\u2019s inability to speak and understand Spanish. The author takes the reader far off the tourist\u2019s beaten path on dangerous missions from the far-flung arid northern deserts to the frigid Straits of Magellan where he lived, trained, and suffered alongside the Chilean Marines. Behind Friendly Lines explores the challenge of recalibrating nearly every facet of a family\u2019s existence while forging lifelong friendships and learning irreplaceable lessons.
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What does it mean to serve your country while learning to love another one on the other side of the world? How does a family adjust to life in a new place and then find that they must adjust again to the place they always considered home? This memoir raises questions about the nature of nation, service, and belonging, while providing an honest view of American foreign policy decisions from a retired military officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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By the end of day three we were exhausted, filthy, hungry, scratched, and bleeding from pushing through thorn bushes and walking on blistered feet. I started to suffer from edema. My hands and lower legs were starting to swell so much that I had to loosen my watch band a couple of notches. At one of the checkpoints, an officer from another unit whom I knew from riding the van into work together told me I looked disastrously depleted. We had the good fortune to pick up some MREs on the third day at a time when we badly needed calorie-dense food. In the darkness we huddled in the tree line beside the road to wolf down our vacuum-packed food. I could hear Victor suddenly spitting frantically. I shined a flashlight on him and asked him what was wrong. He had opened a package of peanuts and, mistaking the small white package of desiccant for salt since it was too dark to see the prominent \u201cDo Not Eat\u201d warning printed on the side, opened it too and mixed it with the peanuts. We couldn\u2019t even catch a break sitting down to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Mark McGraw:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark McGraw was born in Ft. Worth, Texas, grew up in Alexandria, Louisiana, and lived and worked in thirty-four countries during his twenty years of service as a U.S. Marine officer. He is a writer, translator, and language professor, having earned a master’s degree in Modern Languages and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Texas A&M University. He has also translated Joseph Avski’s Heart of Scorpio<\/em> (Tiny Toe Press, 2012) and One Step from Juarez<\/em> (Mouth feel Press, 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connect with Mark McGraw: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook<\/a> | Twitter<\/a> | Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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