Anthony Swofford, Paul Rieckhoff, and Sean Huze

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of the Veteran group Operation Truth, and Sean Huze, an active duty marine and author of the play The Sand Storm.

» More on Operation Truth
» More on The Sand Storm
» Link to previous interview with Anthony Swofford
» Read an excerpt of Jarhead in our Reading Room

Music: Soundtrack to Primal Fear, music by James Newton Howard: "The Murder Scene" / "Dinner with Shaughnessy" / "Janet Finds Video"

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