For God and Country Faith and Patriotism Under Fire

by Yee, James

• ISBN13: 9781586483692
• ISBN10: 1586483692
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-11
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

"James Yee's memoir tells how a patriotic West Point graduate found himself faced with capital charges, subjected to abusive treatment, and imprisoned in solitary confinement - without any basis in truth." "James Yee decided to take up the invitation to enter the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps as one of the first Muslim chaplains. His story provides an inside view of the operation at Guantanamo Bay, where Chaplain Yee was assigned in 2003. His duties required him to minister to the prisoners there, and he came to know their situation perhaps better than anyone else. His reward was to be called a Chinese Taliban, and be persecuted by anonymous briefings to the media and by a parade of accusation and innuendo. None of it was ever substantiated; all the charges against him would be dropped, but only after his career was ruined and his reputation attacked."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

James Yee, a third-generation Chinese-American and a 1990 graduate of West Point, served in the U.S. Army for 14 years, including a tour in Saudi Arabia during the aftermath of the first Gulf War. His spiritual conversion to Islam in 1991 guided his travels to Damascus, Syria, where he studied for four years. He twice traveled to Mecca to make the Haj, the sacred Muslim pilgrimage.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Arrest	3	(8)
``Terribly American''	11	(30)
Welcome to Gitmo	41	(18)
Caged in Camp Delta	59	(20)
Muslim Troopers	79	(12)
``Chaplain on the Block!''	91	(19)
Gitmo's Secret Weapon	110	(17)
Suspicion in the Ranks	127	(11)
``Yee, 2253!''	138	(23)
Wounded in the War on Terror	161	(18)
U.S. v. Captain James Yee	179	(15)
Military Injustice	194	(19)
Epilogue	213	(10)
Appendix	223	(2)
Acknowledgments	225	(4)
Index	229