To Be A Rose (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798893894349)

It is 2005 and Ed, a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, has been hired as a Senior Logistics Expert to work with the Afghanistan Ministry of Defense as an advisor and mentor to two senior Afghan officers. However, soon aft er Ed has settled into his new working routine, he finds himself being tended to in a treatment area just outside of Kabul and trapped in an eight-week dream. What follows is a straightforward and powerful novel of one man's experiences in Afghanistan and how his personal battle to survive changes his life forever.