Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay
A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior
U.S. Army Reserve Captain Montgomery Granger found himself the ranking Army Medical Department officer in a joint military operation like no other before it
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Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay
U.S. Army Reserve Captain Montgomery Granger found himself the ranking Army Medical Department officer in a joint military operation like no other before it – taking care of terrorists and murderers just months after the horrors of September 11, 2001. Granger and his fellow Reservists end up running the Joint Detainee Operations Group (JDOG) at Guantanamo Bay’s infamous Camp X-Ray. In this moving memoir, Granger writes about his feelings of guilt, leaving his family and job back home, while in Guantanamo, he faces a myriad of torturous emotions and self-doubt, at once hating the inmates he is nonetheless duty bound to care for and protect. Through long distance love, and much heartache, Granger finds a way to keep his sanity and dignity. Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay is his story.
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Saving Grace, is a heart wrenching look not only into Gitmo, but, the devastating effects that comes when a man is wretched from his family as Granger was, days after the birth of his third son. His high rank in the reserve, did not prepare him for the psychological fall out in a different kind of war. He had already proven himself the best in the Army, by his acquired rank. Gitmo, was vastly different. Not only was he required to treat those who would kill him if given the chance, nothing was already in place, That was his job discription also. Yet, all were not on the same page, which was only natural. We had just survived the worse disaster since Pear Harbor, 9/11, and, I don't think many would be too charitable in similar circumstances. Granger handled it with a amount of professionalism that is truly amazing. In just reading this, I cannot help but think, just how well they were treated , and the main two things which kept coming to mind were: our men would have been tortued brutality,then killed, and, why, did they not bomb this place to keep the detainees from talking( Afghans) Then, it was mentioned in the book, they too wondered the same thing. To this day., I still do. What all had to put aside was so unbelievable, most of us cannot imagine it. The extreme hatred for these people, the wish to kill them, I am sure was present, how could it not be? The MP are known to be the toughest men, yet, they did their job. Was there friction, of course. You were dealing with people who lived a 7th century existence. They acted and reacted like animals, but, we could not stoop to their level. The psychological effects of this will be and is much worse than the day to day. Many will suffer PTSD, and our country needs to be there for them. One thing cannot be stressed enough. These detainees received the best care they ever had. Medical, dental, surgical. Our own military, our MPwere not allowed medical care unless it was an emergency, yet, there people got the best. In a world where their creed was " To kill everyone " Granger and others, gave up their lives and families to take care and heal those determined to kill us. What do you call such men? Heros
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About the Author
Montgomery J. Granger
Montgomery J. Granger is a three-time mobilized U.S. Army Reserve Major (Ret.) who resides in Long Island, New York, with his wife and five children. Granger is the author of Theodore, a personal narrative published in the 2006 Random House wartime anthology, Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Home Front in the words of U.S. Troops and their Families.
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U.S. Army Reserve Captain Montgomery Granger found himself the ranking Army Medical Department officer in a joint military operation like no other before it