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 MGC TO PRESENT THE BIG READ KEYNOTE SPEAKER, MICHAEL SALLAH (Cochran, GA) – Middle Georgia College will present the Big Read Keynote Speaker, Michael Sallah, on April 9 at 7:00 p.m. in Russell Hall Auditorium. The event is part of a month-long series of events in MGC’s community-wide Big Read of Tim O’Brien’s short story collection, The Things They Carried. The presentation, “A Soldier’s Stress,” will examine what soldiers of the Vietnam War and the soldiers of contemporary conflicts, such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan, experience. According to his biography, “Sallah was the lead reporter in 2003 who uncovered one of the great military secrets of the last century: the Tiger Force case- the story of an elite platoon that dangerously spun out of control in Vietnam in 1967, slaughtering hundreds of civilians. The case was substantiated by the military in the longest war crimes case of the Vietnam conflict, but later buried by the Pentagon. Sallah and his colleagues received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for exposing the events. He recently co-authored a book, Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War (Little, Brown and Company) which is being hailed by literary critics as one of the most important books ever written about the Vietnam War.” |