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War doesn't always end when you come home.After the Storm is Andrew Cahill's deeply personal account of war, survival, family, trauma, and the long struggle to find his way home.Cahill served as a U.S. Marine with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion during the Iraq War, deploying during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and returning for the brutal fighting surrounding Fallujah in 2004. Years later, he returned to the Marine Corps and served with 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion.But this is not simply a story about combat.It is about what came afterward.Cahill writes candidly about the experiences that followed him home, the toll they took on his life and relationships, and the people who remained beside him when the battles became internal. At its heart is his relationship with his wife, Catherine, and a family forced to weather storms they never expected to face.Told without pretending that memory, trauma, love, or recovery fit neatly into a heroic narrative, After the Storm is the story of a Marine trying to understand not only what happened to him, but what happened to the people he loves.It is a memoir about war and its aftermath, about mistakes and consequences, and about the difficult work of finding a way forward when surviving turns out to be only the beginning. Read more
