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My book is focuses on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These wars are still going on today, but a problem resulting of these wars is prejudice against Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent. Discrimination against Middle Easterners has escalated since President Trump has imposed the travel ban. This travel ban prevented anyone from Syria, Yemen, Iran, Lynda, Somalia, and Sudan to fly into the United States for 90 days. This ban was meant to prevent possible terrorists or enemies of the U.S. into America through planes.
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My book, Shoot Like A Girl, follows MJ Hegar, a girl from Austin Texas who joins the Air Force and eventually fights in the Afghanistan War. During the early parts of the autobiography, the Civil War between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance had just started. Since this book is nonfiction, all the events in the book are real and actually happened. The first Gulf War had just ended when MJ finishes college and joins the Air Force as an aircraft maintenance worker. She was stationed in Japan during the economic turmoil and recession. She was in Austin at training camp when the Twin Towers were hit. "I watched in horror as the second plane impacted with the tower on live TV. This was no accident. My stomach churned as I began to realize that we were under attack." This is how MJ recalls feeling on the morning of September 11, 2001. Currently in my book, MJ is being deployed on a search and rescue mission in Kandahar. This relates to the world because many of these happened during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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