A Quiet Reality.

A Quiet Reality

Emilio Marrero, Jr.

FaithWalk Publishing

c/o CSS Publishing Company

517 South Main Street, Lima, OH 45804

9780788026171 $15.99 www.csspub.com

A Quiet Reality: A Chaplain's Journey into Babylon, Iraq with the Marine Expeditionary Force is the true-life testimony of Navy chaplain Emilio Marrero, who has served the Navy and Marine Corps for over 29 years, including during Operation Desert Storm and two tours in Iraq. A Quiet Reality focuses upon Marrero's time in Iraq with the Marine Expeditionary Force. An up-close and personal testimony of the complex nature of the two Iraq wars and subsequent occupation, A Quiet Reality combines an understanding of practical realities with abiding faith. Especially recommended reading for Christians of all walks of life, and for church libraries. "I find it no accident that the communities that deal intimately with the quiet realities of war--death, maiming, destruction, grief, humiliation, hunger dislocation, finite mortality--are the very communities that embrace the chaplaincy and understand the need for a community of spiritually focused professionals who care for the soul and spirit of its combatants. The further we get from the intimate face of war and sanitize its process by employing weapons remotely, relegating combat to inanimate objects like missiles and never seeing or smelling the consequences of the ground war, the less conscientious we become of the effects of war and the human toll it can have."