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Erik Edstrom’s Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War left me with a sadness bordering on despair, an empty feeling that burrowed into the darkest areas of my soul.

It’s more than one man’s voyage into an endless war.

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This book is almost a journey that we all, all Americans, have been on since 9/ In the end, we are left to ponder the question: What have we become?

Edstrom’s story begins not long after Sept. 11, He was an all-American kid living in a Boston suburb who applied to the United States Military Academy at West Point. The day the acceptance letter arrived was a time of celebration.

He received a standing ovation at his high-school graduation. He would join West Point’s class of

He reports to the academy with imagery of himself as a tough soldier: “I was issued with new beliefs, new goals, new morals, and new dreams.” He wanted to be a fighter. He chafed