Andrew Carroll: Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Home Front, In the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families

Ed Tracy interviews Andrew Carroll, best-selling author and editor of Operation Homecoming. They are joined by two contributors to the book, Clint Douglas and Sharon Allen, who will speak about their entries and their personal experiences surrounding their time in the military overseas.

Andrew Carroll is founder of the Legacy Project, a national, all-volunteer campaign that encourages Americans to seek out and preserve wartime correspondence before these letters are lost or thrown away. He is the editor of three New York Times best-sellers, including War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars (Scribner, 2001), which came out of the Legacy Project and was the basis for the critically acclaimed PBS documentary of the same name. His most recent book is Behind the Lines (Simon and Schuster, 2005) featuring 200 rare and previously unpublished personal war letters (and e-mails) of American and foreign troops and civilians beginning with the American Revolution and continuing up through Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is recipient of the DAR's Medal of Honor and Freedom Forum's Free Spirit Award. When he isn't traveling around the country encouraging Americans to save their war letters, he lives in Washington , D.C.

ABOUT WAR LETTERS
For three years Andrew Carroll traveled throughout the U.S. and around the world to seek out the most powerful and unforgettable letters ever written during U.S. wars. Featured here are approximately 200 rare and previously unpublished letters and e-mails from the American Revolution to Baghdad.

In the words of Tom Brokaw, "Andrew Carroll has given America a priceless treasure." He refers to Carroll's national bestseller, War Letters, which relates real experiences of America 's wars through the actual words of the men and women who witnessed them.

Besides Behind the Lines and War Letters, Carroll has edited two other New York Times bestsellers, In Our Own Words and Letters of a Nation. Fascinated by the regular person's views on the triumphs and tragedies of war, Carroll is the ongoing force behind the Legacy Project, which seeks to collect letters from around the world to study private war experiences from an international perspective. He also is responsible for bringing back the "Armed Services Editions" (ASEs), which were pocket-sized editions of national bestsellers and literary works handed out to troops stationed abroad during World War II. Now, Mr. Carroll is one of the spokespersons for the Unmet Needs Program, which gathers donations to support our military familes in need here at home.