Military Wives

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 19, 2011

Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone, a series of loosely interconnected stories about military wives in Fort Hood, Texas, and Lily Burana, author of the memoir:  I Love a Man in Uniform, discuss the challenges of being married to a man in the military, the preconceptions of military wives, the stress of war, and coping with distance and injury.

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