The Wax Bullet War: Chronicles of a Soldier & Artist (OpenBook)

About this book

On September 12 2001 a year and a half after finishing his military service Sean Davis strolled into the Oregon National Guards recruiting office and re-enlisted. After dropping out of art school and working a dead-end government job September 11 gave him a new sense of purpose and direction. Follow Sean Davis life as he discovers the oddities of a pop-up America in a hostile desert wasteland; loses his best friend in a violent ambush; returns critically wounded to confinement in a place thats not his home; deals with the fallout of PTSD and the horror of what he experienced in that war zone; and finally as he rediscovers art and its power to heal.