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      • Ryan Smithson served with the Army Corps of Engineers from 2004–2005 in Iraq where he conducted road repair, base fortifications, and various earth-moving operations. When he came home, he went to college on the GI Bill and began writing about his war experiences.
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  2. Sep 12, 2020 · Ghosts of war : the true story of a 19-year-old GI. Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty.

  3. Ghosts of War (2009), a young adult memoir by U.S. Army Reservist Ryan Smithson, recounts Smithson’s experience of deployment in Iraq, beginning with his decision to enlist, which he took when he was just seventeen.

  4. Apr 9, 2009 · Ryan Smithson was an ordinary teenager until he witnessed the devastation of September 11th, 2001. Watching the Twin Towers fall motivated him to enlist in the Army Reserve at the age of...

  5. Apr 21, 2009 · The war novel, Ghosts of War, follows Ryan Smithson from his enlistment in the army after 9/11 through the end of his tour of duty in Iraq. Ryan Smithson was a senior in high school when 9/11 happened.

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  6. Ryan Smithson served with the Army Corps of Engineers from 2004–2005 in Iraq where he conducted road repair, base fortifications, and various earth-moving operations. When he came home, he went to college on the GI Bill and began writing about his war experiences.

  7. www.kirkusreviews.com › book-reviews › ryan-smithsonGHOSTS OF WAR - Kirkus Reviews

    May 1, 2009 · Ryan Smithson was a typical 16-year-old high-school student until 9/11. “I’d thought about joining the military the moment I saw the towers fall,” he writes in this profoundly moving memoir.