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Last Journey: A Father and Son in Wartime.(Brief article)(Book review)
Last Journey: A Father and Son in Wartime Darrell Griffin Sr. and Darrell "Skip" Griffin Jr. Atlas (Norton, dist.), $25 (309p) ISBN 978-1-934633-16-8
The conflicted, ultimately tragic experience of an American soldier in Iraq is explored in this moving homage. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Skip Griffin saw heavy fighting during several tours in Iraq before he was killed by a sniper in Baghdad in 2007. His father's memoir portrays Skip as a thoughtful man (he read Plato at age 13) imbued with a skeptical patriotism, despite his deep misgivings about the war, he volunteered to cut short a yearlong break to return to Iraq. Skip's own …
