Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps

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In 1998, Frank Schaeffer used to be a bohemian novelist living in “Volvo driving, higher-education worshipping” Massachusetts with two children graduated from top universities. Then his youngest child, straight out of highschool, joined america Marine Corps. Written in alternating voices by eighteen-year-old John and his father, Frank, Keeping Faith takes readers in riveting fashion through a circle of relatives’s experience of the Marine Corps: from being broken down and built back up on Parris Island (and being the parent of a kid undergoing that experience), to the growth of both father and son and their separate reevaluations of what it means to serve. From Frank’s realization that among his fellow soccer dads “the very words ‘boot camp’ were pejorative, conjuring up ‘troubled youths at risk'” (“‘But are not they all terribly southern?’ asked one parent”) to John’s learning that “the Marine next to you is more vital than you are,” Keeping Faith — a New York Times bestseller — is an interesting and personal examination of issues of class, duty, and patriotism. The truth that John is currently serving in the Middle East only adds to the affect of this wonderfully written, timely, and moving human interest story.
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