A Conspicuous Quiet

About the Book

Jack Crain, a beloved son and a young man of promise and hope and quiet strength of character, enlists in the United States Army after high school to earn money for a college education.  With this one fateful step he is pulled into a war that he did not plan or want or understand.   

Through the experience of one foot soldier and his family—traced from birth to Baghdad—West Point graduate Jason Berndt makes the war in Iraq the palpable tragedy that it is.    

A Conspicuous Quiet is a parent-child love story that, in defense of love, presents a scathing social and political critique.

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