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Jerad Alexander’s memoir: VOLUNTEERS: Growing Up In The Forever War explores his obsession with all things military. He grew up playing with guns. And enlisted like his mother, father, stepfather and grandfather before him. Raised on masculine fantasies of heroism and patriotism, he learned his childhood dreams were a mirage.