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This awesome book opened my eyes to a very real situation of a vet's experiences. I was married to a Vietnam vet many years ago, and I witnessed his nightmares etc. Getting help at the VA involved hours of waiting and only addressed physical, not mental issues. Recently, I have been increasingly concerned about the treatment our vets receive at the hands of the VA. However, those reports are impersonal and distant reports about distant people. Until Tuesday make one man's story intimate and personal, and each of us needs to know what coming back from this sort of war is really like. I hope that, like me, many more people will read it and ask, what can I do?

Shortly after I read this book, my son, who served 3 tours in Kuwait and Afghanistan and was scheduled to go back, took his own life. It was so hard, especially since he seemed so happy, with a woman who loved him and a baby on the way. He planned to retire from the army in 4 years and move back to where he could be close to us. I found the insights I gained in Until Tuesday to be helpful and comforting.

This is an important book for every citizen to read. It has become THE book I give or lend to everyone. I hope it will raise the questions of just what the personal cost is of sending our young people to war, and how we are willing to support them when they return. And for the younger audience, I recommend Tuesday Tucks Me In, a warm and beautiful book that introduces a special way service dogs can help humans.


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Until Tuesday A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him Luis Carlos Montalván Bret Witter 9781455853557 Books Reviews

Over the years, I have gotten so very tired of soppy/sentimental dogs stories, dog stories 'written by the dog', dog stories that indicate the dog's IQ was higher than the person owning the dog,courageous dog stories, and the kind of dog story that is really a forum for something else. Since they tend to reveal themselves early on, although I have finished most of them (let's face it, your gag reflex is only so strong) it has gotten so that I approach a dog story as if there is probably a bomb inside the pie, so to speak.

This book contains some of several of these groups, but not in the amount or number that takes over the narrative. The magical part is that in his homage to his service dog, Luis Montalvan also makes a case against war, states what some of us long suspected about a recent conflict, and points out the need for more public information disseminated, and addressed, to the injuries so many of our veterans have sustained. And it still manages to wonderfully describe the dog, and the bond forged between them.

He's a guy with a mission, and I didn't get the book for that, I got it because I love and train my own dogs and always hope for a good dog book. This one, written by what was a non-dog person, is a gripping trip, whether you care about dogs, the military, the vets or just want to look through a window into a world most of us never see. You come away both entertained and informed.
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"Until Tuesday" was a great read! I bought it thinking it was all about a dog. It is a story of "Tuesday" but even better, its a story about one of our wounded vets & what it's like for them when they try to return to "normal" life. It talks about their physical wounds as well as their emotional & psychological wounds. It give a clearer picture as to what these men face when overnight they are thrust from a war zone to "normal" living & are expected to adapt overnight. They go thru & see such horrors in the war zone, & those horrors are imbedded in their mind & heart...they don't disappear just because these men set their feet on American soil again. A lot of these men are scared for life. One thing for sure, the man who comes back from war is not the same one who went to war, & probable never will be again. Tuesday was a great help to to Luis, & helped him learn to function in ways he never could before he met Tuesday. I think the government should provide one of these specially trained therapy dogs to each & every vet when he returns home from war. We owe them at least that much to show our gratitude.
This book brought into an acute focus the debilitating effects of PTSD. One can argue the root causes, whether it is guilt of ones involvement in a war they no longer believed in, or even never did, or the trauma of the effects of war on other human beings, or perhaps these and other reasons as well. But the fact is that many thousands have been exposed to horrors we likely will never understand. However, thanks to Until Tuesday, I can much better understand what PTSD is, and how it effects the human condition. This is one of many legacies Captain Montalvan will leave behind. I also much better understand how service animals are trained and the invaluable service they can provide. Captain Montalvan rebounded well enough from his PTSD to earn a Masters Degree in journalism from Columbia University, and he put his education to work with this book and numerous articles in major newspapers and websites. I certainly wish this book had a happy ending, but the reality is there is often no happy ending to the effects of war. It kills, it maims, and it cripples those who survive it. R.I.P. Captain Montalvan.
This awesome book opened my eyes to a very real situation of a vet's experiences. I was married to a Vietnam vet many years ago, and I witnessed his nightmares etc. Getting help at the VA involved hours of waiting and only addressed physical, not mental issues. Recently, I have been increasingly concerned about the treatment our vets receive at the hands of the VA. However, those reports are impersonal and distant reports about distant people. Until Tuesday make one man's story intimate and personal, and each of us needs to know what coming back from this sort of war is really like. I hope that, like me, many more people will read it and ask, what can I do?

Shortly after I read this book, my son, who served 3 tours in Kuwait and Afghanistan and was scheduled to go back, took his own life. It was so hard, especially since he seemed so happy, with a woman who loved him and a baby on the way. He planned to retire from the army in 4 years and move back to where he could be close to us. I found the insights I gained in Until Tuesday to be helpful and comforting.

This is an important book for every citizen to read. It has become THE book I give or lend to everyone. I hope it will raise the questions of just what the personal cost is of sending our young people to war, and how we are willing to support them when they return. And for the younger audience, I recommend Tuesday Tucks Me In, a warm and beautiful book that introduces a special way service dogs can help humans.