Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives

They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize���inning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen, the broken homes they have left behind, and one man�'s effort to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. But it is not a book about war, politics, or liberal vs. conservative. Achingly beautiful and honest, it is a book that every American���very human���an embrace.