*Sergeant Rafael Peralta, a Mexican immigrant, enlisted in the Marines the same day he received his green card. *Army National Guard Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester, the first woman ever to be awarded the Silver Star for combat, whose sharp-shooting and bravery played an enormous role in fighting off over fifty Iraqi insurgents while her ten-person squad protected a convoy of supplies on the way to fellow soldiers. *Lieutenant Colonel Mark Mitchell, the Green Beret leader whose 15-man Special Forces team took 500 Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners, and posthumously repatriated the body of the first American to die in combat in the War on Terror, CIA agent Johnny 'Mike' Spann. But more than that, these are the stories of soldiers who risked everything to save lives and defend freedom. These are the powerful, true-life stories of the hopes, fears, and triumphs these men and women experienced fighting the War on Terror.

Home of the Brave takes readers beyond the bullets and battles and into the hearts and minds of the men and women who are fighting terrorists overseas so that America doesn't have to fight them at home. Hall tell stories of jaw-dropping heroism and hope in Afghanistan and Iraq. In this riveting, intimate account, former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Wynton C. They are nineteen of the most highly decorated soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines in the United States military, and yet most Americans don't even know their names. Weinberger brings us a chronicle of heroism in the War on Terror. In Home of the Brave, former Secretary of Defense Caspar W.

Home of the brave 2006