Guys Like Me introduces us to five ordinary veterans from different generations who have done extraordinary work as peace activists. Michael A. Messner reveals how the horror and trauma of the battlefront motivated onetime warriors to reconcile with former enemies, crusade for justice, and heal themselves and others.  
 

MICHAEL A. MESSNER is a professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is the author or editor of many books, including Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women, King of the Wild Suburb:  A Memoir of Fathers, Sons and Guns, and No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport and the Unevenness of Social Change (Rutgers University Press).
 
 

Prologue
 
Chapter 1
Projects of Peace
 
Chapter 2
There Is No "Good War"
Ernie "Indio" Sanchez, World War II
 
Chapter 3
Being Honorable
Wilson "Woody" Powell, Korean War
 
Chapter 4
Paying Off My Karmic Debt
Gregory Ross, The American War in Vietnam
 
Chapter 5
You Clock In, You Go Kill People
Daniel Craig, The Gulf War
 
Chapter 6
Laying the Tracks
Jonathan W. Hutto, Sr., Operation Iraqi Freedom
 
Chapter 7
This Is Our Service
 
References
 
Notes