the body of a teenager left uncovered on the street of an American city. But war is right here- the photograph on my screen of a girl splattered in blood at a checkpoint. In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib. She writes, "I live in a world where it is said, You are here and war is there. And their stories did make me afraid, convinced me I was the vulnerable one whose life was at risk. Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature and theology, Sentilles tells the true stories of a conscientious objector during World War II and a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib. 'I have a friend who adopted,' these stories began. In Draw Your Weapons, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defence of life lived by peace and principle. These likenesses- the infamous photo of the hooded man standing on a box at Abu Ghraib with electrodes attached to his outstretched hands, pictures of slaves on plantations or of a Taliban soldier about to be killed by his captors- haunt Sentilles, just as they do us. Who became a drug addict, a runaway, who drained bank accounts, ruined marriages. As a species we commit atrocious acts, but we also memorialize them in images that both lie and tell the truth about what occurred. She is fascinated by strange intersections of brutality and art in photographs, paintings, and even the making of musical instruments. Harvard Divinity School graduate Sentilles weaves together details from Ghraib, Auschwitz, and her own family's war stories, creating a shockingly poetic meditation on how and why we break one another and what happens after.
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