Tomas Young’s War – Book Signing and Presentation by Author

The program will be held on Sunday, August 21, noon to 2 PM in the community room of Basics Cooperative, 1711 Lodge Dr., Janesville, WI. The book signing / meet the author begins at noon with a formal presentation at 1 PM by Mark. This event is sponsored by Veterans For Peace Chapter 175, Janesville, WI, The Rock Valley Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Rock County, WI. This is an independent event not affiliated with Basics Cooperative. All are welcome to attend. For more information call 608 879-2841.

Tomas Young joined the army following 9-11-2001. Young was deployed to Iraq where an insurgent’s bullet pierced his spine in 2004. Young was paralyzed from the chest down and died in 2014 of complications from the wound he suffered ten years earlier.

The author of Tomas Young’s War, Mark Wilkerson spent eight years in the U.S. Army as an AH-1 Cobra & UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew chief with the 3rd Infantry & 101st Airborne Divisions.

After reading Mark’s book, Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now! remarked, “Tomas Young joined the army to wage war, and emerged a champion of peace. The grievous injury he suffered in Iraq consigned him to a wheelchair, but from there he rose to incredible heights, raising the hue and cry against an illegal war and those who authored it.” Tomas Young’s War was published by Haymarket Books.