Noon today on WORTs APA: Our conduct of war abroad has turned increasingly to corporation-based contracting schemes that exploit and lie waste to the lives of all involved. No one knows this better than acclaimed author Janet Burroway of Lake Geneva, who lost her soldier-contractor son to suicide a decade ago last week. Her book, Losing Tim, is a compellingly written memoir that unravels the mystery of why her son died by revealing how he lived, and how a badly broken and corrupt American war machine ultimately failed him. The book shes written has important lessons to anyone contemplating the what ifs behind a loved ones internal battles with depression and suicide, alongside lessons learned about the overriding need for all good people of conscience to speak out against a greed-based multi-nationally run corporate war system that serves no one, regardless of ideology or principled belief. Janet Burroway was at heart a pacifist who nonetheless grew to accept her oldest sons dedication to the US military as part of who he was. Her son Tim was an unapologetic lover of guns and military culture who also led courageous efforts in clearing away mines that ultimately saved countless lives. Such are among just a few of the complicated and multi-faceted realities Janet shares with us in Losing Tim, which is published by the Minneapolis-based Think Piece Publishing. Janet has written eight novels and countless other poems and plays, as well as the best-selling how-to book in the US on the art of creative writing. But in this intensely autobiographical work, she has accomplished something that few authors ever accomplish: a look back at a familys life stories in ways that contain deeply-expressed lessons about the meaning of life for us all. No matter what your belief system or ideology when it comes to larger questions around the role of the military and the efficacy of war, she raises important questions worthy of our consideration with a book as powerfully moving as any Ive read in recent times. Please join us today at noon on WORT 89.9 FM here in Madison for A Public Affair, also streaming and podcast at wortfm.org. We welcome your calls at 608-256-2001. More on Janet at janetburroway
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:53:12 +0000
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