Final Salute: The Story of Unfinished Lives, by Jim Sheeler
On assignment as a reporter with the Rocky Mountain News, Jim Sheeler spent two years shadowing Maj. Steve Beck, a marine in charge of casualty notification, as he delivered the news of battlefield death to families. Now a scholar in residence in the journalism school, Sheeler crafted the stories he collected from the experience into an eloquent tribute to the soldiers who have died in Iraq and their devastated families. The book was an evolution out of a Pulitzer Prize-winning feature story that he wrote for the Rocky Mountain News in 2005.
