Fighting Fear With Fiction: A Veteran's New Novel on the Challenges of Life After Service

Sara Carter Show

M3 Media

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

American warriors are struggling. Homeless camps, mental hospitals, and lonely homes across America are filled with American heroes struggling to cope with life after serving our great nation. And nearly 6,400 veterans committed suicide in 2021 alone. If our nation wants to protect those who have protected us, this tragedy must be confronted head-first.

On today's show, Sara is joined by U.S. Marine Corps veteran John J. Waters to discuss his new novel "River City One." While a work of fiction, "River City One" draws on real life and depicts the reality many veterans face after returning to civilian status and their challenging journey to acceptance. Seeing so many friends struggle with the horrors of war and re-entry into the civilian world has affected Waters greatly.

As the wife of a permanently blinded veteran, Sara knows all about living with the consequences of war every day. Don't miss this open and honest conversation about our veterans and the best way to help them.

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Time Stamps:
0:05 Returning home
5:38 Their sacrifice has protected us
8:50 John Waters Joins the Show
13:39 John’s service
19:15 A WW2 Veteran
22:48 Sacrifice
23:32 Can a soldier ever go home?
29:02 Research for the book
31:17 Giving a voice
36:25 Advice + Where to get the book
38:59 Show Close

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0:00.0	Have you ever seen a video of a troop, a soldier, a marine surprising his or her family after returning home and it's like that moment where everybody kind of reunites and the dad gives like the big bear hug to the kids and you know he's back home with the family.
0:34.4	Sometimes sneaky. and he's back home with the family, sometimes sneaking up behind them or, you know, showing up at a school event and it's always just such a gut-wrenching moment. Doesn't matter if you're like,
0:36.5	family is in the military or not.
0:38.4	I mean, you watch these and your heart just breaks
0:42.2	because you understand the sacrifices, right, the sacrifices that are being made by both the family and by the military personnel that is on like had been on deployment for a year or half a year or three months
0:58.0	away from the family away from all of that time together
1:04.4	and still finding their way back home.
1:08.6	But does a soldier, does a troop,
1:11.7	does a marine? The reason I say that is because soldiers refer to the Army.
1:16.0	Of course, Marines refer to the Marine Corps, Navy.
1:19.0	Let's just say troops.
1:20.0	But do our troops ever really come back home? Do they ever really completely come back home?
1:29.4	There are so many sacrifices that our troops made in the war on terror.
1:37.1	And right now Christopher Ray is saying, hey, guess what?
1:40.7	There's so much chatter outside of the United States now.
1:45.0	Terrorists are chattering everywhere about targeting the United States,
1:49.5	especially after the October 7th attack in Israel, that there is a real fear that there will be
1:56.0	in another attack in our country. Think about what happened after September 11th.
2:07.1	It changed everyone's life. It changed my life. It changed my husband's life. I mean, he was immediately in 2001 in Afghanistan after those attacks and had been
2:20.6	there ever since and by 2011 he was wounded in Afghanistan you know in the eastern provinces of Afghanistan fighting the war on terror and
2:35.0	continued to work even after he was blinded for 10 years you know know, until, of course, he decided to retire. And we all saw how that
2:48.7	war ended. After 20 years, America's longest war, we watched as the Biden administration basically just
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