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02667aam a22004818i 4500 001 4AC77684E66C11E99CD11AFC96128E48 003 SILO 005 20191004010026 008 190415s2019 gau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019005355 020 $a 0820355666 020 $a 9780820355665 035 $a (OCoLC)1097960644 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-af--- $a n-us-ia $a a-af--- 100 1 $a Moore, Steven, $d 1986- $e author. 245 14 $a The longer we were there : $b memoir of a part-time soldier / $c Steven Moore. 263 $a 1909 264 1 $a Athens, GA : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2019] 300 $a pages cm. 490 0 $a Association of Writers and Writing Programs award for creative nonfiction 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Ripping in -- Education -- Against the river -- The road to Kama Daka -- Bread and television -- To fling forward in a certain way -- Playing zombies -- Rhino snot -- On counterinsurgency -- American background -- The trouble with ceremony -- The case for Zakir. 520 $a The Longer We Were There follows a part-time soldier?s experience over seven years in the Iowa Army National Guard. He enlists at seventeen into the infantry, then bounces between college classes, army training, disaster relief, civilian jobs, a deployment in Afghanistan?first on the Afghan-Pakistani border, then into a remote valley in the Hindu Kush Mountains?and finally comes home. His stories are about having one foot on each side of the civilian-military divide, the difficulty of describing one side to those on the other, and how, as a consequence of this difficulty, that divide gets replicated within the self. 600 10 $a Moore, Steven, $d 1986- 610 10 $a Iowa. $b Army National Guard $v Biography. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x Military life. 610 17 $a United States. $b Army. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00533532 611 27 $a Afghan War (2001-) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01695175 650 0 $a Afghan War, 2001- $v Personal narratives, American. 650 7 $a Armed Forces $x Military life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01351813 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a Personal narratives $v American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01424071 941 $a 6 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909063545.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722062128.0 952 $l WPPB215 $d 20210202021841.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20201002011746.0 952 $l CQPE926 $d 20200205010836.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20191005013053.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4AC77684E66C11E99CD11AFC96128E48 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search