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Sgt. Neil Gussman, 56, came to Iraq knowing that deployments can be filled with torturously slow periods waiting for something to happen.
Gussman, who enlisted in 1972 and later joined the Pennsylvania National Guard in 2007 — after a 23-year hiatus from the military — recalls that when he served in Germany in the late 1970s, the Army would occasionally show a movie for soldiers in the field. They mostly killed time by reading.
In Iraq, he was surprised to see few soldiers reading for pleasure, so he started two book clubs. One, called Beyond Narnia, reviews essays by C. S. Lewis, who wrote the children’s series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis’ religious themes have made the club popular with chaplains here at Adder, Gussman says.
The other club, the Dead Poets Society, is reading the works of Dante and Virgil.
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This is cool. Thanks for the report!
I started the groups to find other people who already love the works of CSL or would once they started reading.