Buckeye broadband along with these Television Companies supports cspan2 as a public service. Jerad alexander is with us, he has written for esquire,rolling stone , the nation, narrative. I do i get this wrong. Narrative that he and elsewhere. He holds an mfa in literary reportage from the new york universityarthur l Carter School of journalism. From 1998 to 2006 he served as a us marine deployed to the mediterranean east africa and iraq. He grew up on military bases from the east coast of the United States. He currently lives in new york city but calls atlanta home. Please give a warm savanna welcome to jerad alexander. [applause] good morning. Give me one second here. First thanks for having me. Its been awful hard year for facetoface interactions with books for a few years i suppose and just being here is a real honor actually. I was happy to be invited. To you guys about my book and some of the stuff thats written in it and thats what i wanted to talk aboutt. I thought about what i
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