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Prologue-Chapter 1

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Finkel, David. Thank You for Your Service. Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

• In the Prologue Adam’s final deployment changes how he feels about war.

• He goes from a typical deployment to wanting to die in battle, like so many of his friends.

• No one realized that Adam was struggling until he sought help.

• He flew away in a special Red Cross helicopter.

• Before he came home, his wife tells him that she is scared of what he might do.

• In Chapter 1, Adam has been home for two years.

• He agrees to help his wife with their four-day-old baby, but he nods off and drops the baby.

• Saskia screams and rushes to grab the crying baby.

• Adam wishes that she would forgive him, but she does not.

• Adam goes for a drive...

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