With suicide, stability is the problem, not a solution. Like how I get asked if I am thinking of killing myself every single time I interact with the VA. Since then it has remained “stable” at about 20 per day.
3 The relative change over time has remained steady, from a low of 19 per day in 2001 to a high of 21 in 2011. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), in 2014 veterans made up 8.5 percent of the population but were responsible for 18 percent of all suicides. 2 A lot of ink has been spilled about military suicide as a mental health emergency, but not much has changed. As I write this, one soldier and seventeen veterans will take their lives each day, or one every eighty minutes. If the military suicide rate is any indication, grunts could stand to be reminded that there is reason to live, reason to smile, reason to carry on. Gene Duncan, a grunt is “that tired, filthy, thirsty, hungry, footsore, ripped-trouser, camouflage-painted, lean, mean, son a bitch who has kept the wolf away from the door for over two hundred years.” 1 Dictionaries are more concise, with Oxford defining it as a “low-ranking or unskilled soldier or other worker” and Merriam-Webster’s as simply “unglamorous.” Unlike the latter two, Duncan intended the term to be one of affection and endearment rather than derogatory. He lives in Maryland.Īccording to Major H.
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He has been featured on the cover of Christianity Today Magazine and was awarded an Evangelical Press Association award for Best Article Series for "Ponder Christian Soldiers" in 2016. His first book received a Publishers Weekly Starred Review and he has served as a consultant or contributing author of nearly twenty additional publications, including books such as The Gospel of Rutba (Orbis, 2012), and Jesus, Bombs, & Ice Cream (Zondervan, 2012). Logan is the sole author, as Logan Mehl-Laituri, of Reborn on the Fourth of July (InterVarsity, 2012) and For God and Country: In That Order (Herald, 2013). After returning to a teaching position at Duke University, he went on to earn a Certificate in Business Administration from Georgetown University and start Pew Pew HQ, a social enterprise based in the Washington, D.C. Logan spent a year teaching at Methodist University in North Carolina before leaving to study at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, from which he received a Master of Letters in Systematic and Historical Theology in 2015. He was discharged as a Noncommissioned Officer in 2006 and went on to earn a BA from Hawaii Pacific University and a Master of Theological Studies from Duke University. Isaac spent over six years in the United States Army as an artilleryman, including a deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004.
He attempts to fill the void most Christians in the military feel by providing theological resources to discern a better way of discipleship for GIs, affirming the nuance and complexity of armed service and the gifts GIs extend to Christians around the world. This well-researched, meditative guide for Christians who have served their country delves deep into the Bible, while Isaac shares his own beliefs and thoughts on the life-altering experiences of battle. In his new book, God Is a Grunt, Logan Isaac offers an opportunity for GIs, veterans, and those close to them to read Christian traditions as a soldier would-by and through the lived experiences of military service.
because they have had to make an impossible choice, with no perceivable middle ground, between patriot and pacifist. This is good news for millions of Christian soldiers and veterans in the U.S. If Jesus is God, then God is a grunt-the humble, hardy folk placed at the bottom of the social hierarchy who are relied on to accomplish the dirtiest, most difficult (and most thankless) work. This eye-opening book invites readers of all political and denominational stripes into a more meaningful conversation and community with soldiers and veterans.
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