Red Emma’s

Brotherkeeper is the story of the moral dislocation faced by veterans returning home from war.  The story focuses on the enlistment of one young man into the Marines, and the two Marine veterans who try to guide the youth in making his decision, while they battle the demons that came home from the battlefields with them.  “Years of working, living, and sorting out what war has done to myself and those I love, and those I've helped are spun together in this story,” says author Lawrence Winters  about his book.  “No one goes unaffected by the aftereffects of war. How we embrace this truth shall determine our path into the future.”  Brotherkeeper shows the human cost of the invisible wounds suffered by many of our veterans.  It also offers hope that these wounds can be healed, and families and communities can be made whole again.  This story is not only for veterans, their families and loved ones, but for the civilians of our country who want to understand  the moral consequences of war.   Larry will discuss his new book,  the moral dislocation suffered by our returning heroes,  and the healing process.   Author Lawrence Winters is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam era.  More recently Larry has retired from a 25 year career as counselor at Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, New York, where he spent the last decade as the Director of Veteran Treatment.  Brotherkeeper, a novel,  is his first second book.  His first book, The Making and Unmaking of a Marine, was an autobiography.