Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the U.S. Marine Corps

Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the U.S. Marine Corps
by Frank Schaeffer, John Schaeffer

Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the U.S. Marine Corps
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Author: Frank Schaeffer, John Schaeffer
Edition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2003-11-30
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 272

Book Reviews of Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the U.S. Marine Corps

Book Review: Definitely worth reading
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a must-read for parents who have sons/daughters going into today's military service... especially into the Marines.

The author provides excellent perspectives of how a young person's decision affects the parents, friends, and other family; also provides some real insight into today's military, as well as shows how a young person matures during training.

I bought another copy for a friend who is terrified and heartsick that her son wants to join the Corps, right out of High School.

My own Mother went through this when I enlisted during the Korean War, and my younger son was a Marine in Somalia, among other places.

Once a Marine, always a Marine.

The author tells it like it is... Definitely worth reading.

Summary of Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the U.S. Marine Corps

In 1998, Frank Schaeffer was a successful novelist living in ?Volvo-driving, higher-education worshipping? Massachusetts with two children graduated from top universities. Then his youngest child, straight out of high school, joined the U.S. Marine Corps. Written in alternating voices by eighteen-year-old John and his father, Frank, Keeping Faith takes readers in riveting fashion through a family?s experience of the U.S. Marine Corps. From being broken down and built back up on Parris Island (and being the parent of a child undergoing that experience), to the growth of both father and son and their separate reevaluations of what it means to serve. From Frank?s realization that among his fellow soccer dads ?the very words ?boot camp? were pejorative, conjuring up ?troubled youths at risk? ? to John?s learning that ?the Marine next to you is more important than you are,? Keeping Faith is a fascinating and personal reconsideration of issues of class, duty, and patriotism. But as John and his fellow recruits battle to make the cut?and John?s family struggles to deal with the worry and separation, it is also an extremely timely, moving, and wonderfully written human interest story?a moving chronicle of love, duty and patriotism in contemporary America. ?Beautifully written ... great insight and unselfconscious humor.??Publishers Weekly

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