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Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital

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Author: Heidi Squier Kraft
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.8 x 1.1

ISBN: 0316067903
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.704437
EAN: 9780316067904
ASIN: 0316067903

Publication Date: October 24, 2007
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Product Description
When Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft's twin son and daughter were fifteen months old, she was deployed to st1:country-region w:st="on"st1:place w:st="on"Iraq/st1:place/st1:country-region. A clinical psychologist in the US Navy, Kraft's job was to uncover the wounds of war that a surgeon would never see. She put away thoughts of her children back home, acclimated to the sound of incoming rockets, and learned how to listen to the most traumatic stories a war zone has to offer.BROne of the toughest lessons of her deployment was perfectly articulated by the TV show M*A*S*H: "There are two rules of war. Rule number one is that young men die. Rule number two is that doctors can't change rule number one." Some Marines, Kraft realized, and even some of their doctors, would be damaged by war in ways she could not repair. And sometimes, people were repaired in ways she never expected. RULE NUMBER TWO is a powerful firsthand account of providing comfort admidst the chaos of war, and of what it takes to endure.

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5 out of 5 stars

Nothing normal about three purple hearts December 2, 2008
Dr. Kraft has surprised me and helped me to understand better what I was going through as a chaplain at a M*A*S*H type hospital. I arrived about the week that Heidi left Iraq. While reading her account I felt like I was again feeling the heat, the terror, the crazieness and the very un-normal life we lived and survived...sort of. I vaguely remember Heidi when she was at the Naval Hospital in JAX. What an Heroic and courageous and real woman she is. Thank you. This book needs to be required reading of all military pshychologists and chaplains. And since we have so many veterans returning from the war, and families are affected in tremendous ways...then all counselors and ministers should be made aware of this superb account of being real. I just read this book after I published my book: Tear in the Desert. It is amazing how similar it is to be HUMAN. God bless you Dr. Kraft and a huge thank you for serving goes out to your husband and children! Semper Fi!

4 out of 5 stars

Simple prose with complex and surging undercurrents.. October 9, 2008
..is how I would describe this book. It is not wriiten in complex and deep philosophical style, but its simple, honest and sometimes heart-rending frankness and bare-all simplicity makes it powerful and moving. A soldiers suffering is palpable and deeply felt, but you will admire the courage that calmly masks the underlying longing for family, and the plainly written details of turnoil from witnessing the psychological devastation of fellow soldiers will move your heart.

1 out of 5 stars

Not a great read for non Marine military people August 18, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful

While I will credit the book with being a good personal account of one person's short experience in Iraq, I found the book to be very insulting-especially to other military branches. As I write this review, I am trying to imgaine how this book would benefit civilian readers. I'm sure it gives a glimpse into what a combat zone is actually like-although there are many other books that do so with more experience behind the author. If I were affialited with the Marines-I would be happy with the book perhaps...but I am an Army spouse, stationed overseas, married to a soldier who is going on his 4th deployment-his 3rd to Iraq. I found this book was condensending, 2 references in particularly that insult the Army. How dare a Special Forces soldier NOT be intimidated by 10 Naval Officers! To claim that the Army was waved too and praised as they rolled into Iraqi towns while the Marines are getting shot at is not only inaccuate but very demeaning. We should be proud of ALL service members none of who enter a war zone and come back the same. I also found it disturbing that midway through the book the author decided to leave the Navy because being with family is more important. Surely those soldiers, sailors and airmen who, despite missing YEARS (not months like the author) of their children's lives, are saying that family is less important. Serving one's country is a high calling and it should NOT be compaired to a choice between ones devotion to their family or their country. A big THANK YOU should be extended to those who, DESPITE having to leave their family STILL PROUDLY serve. The freedoms and safety we sleep under each night is provided curtesy of those who VOLUNTEER to serve. And being caught without your kevlar? How nice to go to Iraq and be so lax about having this with you at all times. These are just several of the irriatations I found in the book. br /I appreciate the author's attempt to bring to civilian light one person's account of her time in Iraq, but the constant irriatations took away from the book for me.

4 out of 5 stars

Rule #2 August 17, 2008
This was a very good book. It gave me a better appreciation for what our troops are going through in Iraq and Afghanistan - from the point of view of a young mother serving her country.

5 out of 5 stars

Great medical memoir! July 28, 2008
All I can say is that this woman really did her share of caring for critically wounded soldiers. She is a heroine of the first order! Kudos to her and those like her serving our country. Her story should be shared and discussed everywhere.

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