We’ll never forget 9/11, but few of us know the full story of what happened after the notorious terrorist attacks. History shows that the United States went to war in the Middle East, but less has been said about the suspected terrorists rounded up and brought to Guantanamo Bay. But in the new book “Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior“, U.S. Army Reserve Capt. Montgomery J. Granger shares the challenges of taking care of the alleged enemy, while leaving his own family at home in a joint military operation that the world had never before been seen.
Capt. Granger served as the ranking Army Medical Department officer with the Joint Task Force 160 U.S. Naval Station from February to June 2002 — not long after the infamous attacks. Over time, Granger and his team of reservists ran the Joint Detainee Operations Group at Guantanamo’s Camp X-Ray, where many of the world’s worst terrorists were housed. Capt. Granger details the struggle of facing the prisoners’ hatred and rage, while at the same time treating and protecting them.
Capt. Granger drew from the love and support of his family to maintain his sanity and dignity while on assignment, and with this foundation, he was able to define a job that hadn’t existed previously. With these building blocks, he was able to put into context what it meant to step away from your job and your loved ones in the service of the United States and the world.
Author, Montgomery Granger on leave from Iraq in 2005, with son Theodore, who was two days old when Granger left for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in February 2002.
In the process, Capt. Granger pulls back the curtain on what happened after the buildings fell and outlines what it means for a regular citizen — who happens to be a soldier, a family man, an educator, and an Army Reserve Medical Service Officer — to play a part in one of the world’s most significant historical events. As Capt. Granger so effectively illustrates, no one did it alone, whether with his or her fellow reservists at Guantanamo or with the long-distance boost of their kin across the miles.
“Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior” is the first-person account of living and working at the ignominious military camp, which has been shrouded in secrecy for so long. We won’t ever forget, but thanks to Capt. Granger, we can now see a new side to the War on Terror that we hadn’t considered before.
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