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    Draftee: Military Service
    Draftee: Military Service
    Draftee: Military Service
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    Draftee: Military Service

    By Edmar Camara

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    The growing questioning of the loss of the military institution as a means of educational viability and the relevance of its role in the symbolism and incarnation of homeland values, led me to consider writing this book so that society can better inquire.
    The book — a fictional novel, can bring to the reader a little bit of the intramural of the Mandatory Military Service and its legitimacy. The narrative accompanies a young recruit throughout the routine existing in the Brazilian Army Soldier Training Course. His reading is stimulated and timely; after all, a very tiny part of society shares this experience. Of full of 4% of the population that is in this requirement due to age, only 25% of these are called to the selection process; and of this percentage, a measly 5% will live from the practical reality. The closeness of this literary essay is tangible because the writer has been in the ranks of the Army in two different situations: as a student and as an instructor.
    Those millions of young people who receive their reservist without, however, having served, will know about this situation in the book, and thus will be able to prove the relevance of what it is to be reservist. An immensity of young people inhabit this situation, and logic points out that many others will live it.
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdmar Camara
    Release dateMar 15, 2019
    ISBN9780463728000
    Draftee: Military Service
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    Edmar Camara

    Um ativista da arte - pintor, designer, romancista, poeta, contista e produtor de conteúdo digital radicado no Brasil com nascimento em Minas Gerais e vivências em outras territorialidades. Produz textos que se diferenciam por estarem carregados de uma intenção que se adequa ao leitor que o interpreta em sua subjetividade; o que resulta em narrativas que questionam e provocam uma verdade que é exposta, mas que não se apresenta como absoluta.

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      Draftee - Edmar Camara

      DRAFTEE

      MILITARY SERVICE

      by EDMAR CÂMARA

      Copyright © Edmar Câmara

      All rights reserved

      Copyright 2021 Edmar Câmara

      Published by Edmar Câmara

      This content is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It cannot be resold or given to other people. If you want to share this book with someone else, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and have not purchased it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment, then please buy your own copy. No part of this book may be reproduced or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the express written permission of the publisher. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover design by: Edmar Câmara

      KNOW HOW TO BE LOYAL IN THE PURSUIT OF YOUR PERFECTION. IN US RESTS THE DIVINITY.

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      EDMAR CAMARA

      An art activist - painter, designer, novelist, poet, storyteller and producer of digital content, based in Brazil. In a reserved habit, he can manage his work without affecting himself in occupying large gallery rooms or attracting himself by the fascination of attracting crowds. He was building his image endorsed with a post-history style with actions that seek to question the human person as Being. Celebrated by a circle of people with greater effort of understanding, it intends to create the basis of a more philosophical thinking in the imagery reading of forms and texts. His works reveal themselves without presenting mere things in a world that is in great place and discovers appearances. She believes that the human race is always running away from itself; only in singular moments – such as when they are evil, do they always look at each other causing an awkwardness. This is the genesis of his work: to unsee a language based on authentic experience and without the vigilance of an insistently critical thought.

      LIFE AND WORK

      He was born in the central-west town of Formiga. Basic education took place in the city of birth and in the region of the triangle of Minas Gerais - Uberlândia. He then became a Military Establishment as an Infantry Officer of the Brazilian Army - having served much of the time in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Art takes place through music - already in the first half of the 80s, as CEO of the movement of new bands - which advances in the first half of the decade with interests of African headquarters. The painting is noted as a means of giving two-dimensionality - by imposing an activism in art that was available to all, resonating in his works a piece of this and a bit of that - of the post-history movement. Although this is reflected in the messages and layers of colors, it is possible to spy on the things and subjects that populate and provoke the desire of time-for-time in the creations experienced. Written art comes to release a significance - which finds in the texts a model of justice, in the construction of an ultimate purpose in the path that man seeks to build to find himself. The content of his literary works acquires - in his imaginal, an aspect of pearl necklace that tries to visualize conflicts of realities that overcome alienation and selfishness in language. All the work is loaded with experiences throughout Brazil - in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, São Paulo, Pará, Pernambuco, Bahia, Goiás and Sergipe, as well as residence in other territorialities: Southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

      OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR

      In Portuguese: Reco, A Vagar, Berne, Buzinga, Eu, Me Leve a Pernambuco, Janela de Presença, Terra, Fale ao Sol, Mais Humano, Personagem em Ação, Eu no Poder and O Real Está Adiante.

      In other languages: Pickers, Recluta, Ruta, To Roam, Larva, Corbata, I Am Many, Coven, Um Sol Ao Dia, Quién, Skin, Genesis, Ádan, Trumpet, Autentica Naturaleza Humana, Juego de Ideas, Indecent Mind, Compleji Simple and Voice Struggle.

      CONNECT WITH EDMAR CAMARA

      On social networks: @meuimaginal

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      By domain: http://meuimaginal.com

      PREFACE

      The growing questioning of the loss of the military institution as a means of educational viability and the relevance of its role in the symbolism and incarnation of homeland values, led me to consider writing this book so that society can better inquire.

      The book — a fictional novel, can bring to the reader a little bit of the intramural of the Mandatory Military Service and its legitimacy. The narrative accompanies a young recruit throughout the routine existing in the Brazilian Army Soldier Training Course. His reading is stimulated and timely; after all, a very tiny part of society shares this experience. Of full of 4% of the population that is in this requirement due to age, only 25% of these are called to the selection process; and of this percentage, a measly 5% will live from the practical reality. The closeness of this literary essay is tangible because the writer has been in the ranks of the Army in two different situations: as a student and as an instructor.

      Those millions of young people who receive their reservist without, however, having served, will know about this situation in the book, and thus will be able to prove the relevance of what it is to be reservist. An immensity of young people inhabits this situation, and logic points out that many others will live it.

      Enjoy it.

      SUMMARY

      HITTING THE STEP

      WELCOME

      PASSAGE

      DAWN

      BUSH

      AMBUSH

      EMBEDDING ON THE STICK

      JOY

      CHOICES

      ORIENTATION RACE

      RURAL GUERRILHA

      GAME NOVELTY

      FRIENDSHIP

      TRAININGS

      FAMILY AND LOVE

      FESTIVE DATES

      JOINT EXERCISE

      BODY SPIRIT

      I CELEBRATE

      WINNING POEM

      HITTING THE STEP

      A few meters separate Luke from the entrance to Army Headquarters. I was euphoric about going through the Guard and starting the service of Mandatory Military Service. Since the previous year, when I learned that I should enlist, I was completely unaware of how this process would take place - in practice, and especially if I were selected - regardless of your will, which could await you.

      His expectations were to be able to survive bravely in the challenges he knew to face. He did not know what to bring — or did not remember, and in doubt, he only accommodated in the backpack personal hygiene material and a change of clothes with variety of underwear.

      He dispensed with help from friends and family to get to where he was; he made use of public transport. As a measure of security, he believes, the bus stop was a reasonable distance from the entrance to the barracks; he had to overcome these last meters with the reserves of courage he kept up until now.

      It is not easy for Luke this walk to rendering his civic duty. There are many stories and snags told by the media and by people with voice and narrative power, which causes their gaze to move to this moment with fear.

      All this imbroglio, it is supposed to be due to the period of military governments started in 1964. Although it has been reported that much of these His(s)tories or their overwhelming majority came from camouflaged fakes of respectable appearance, and almost generally manipulated by people linked to the terrorist subversive movement that aimed to come to power by the armed presence that stimulated An explicit division in society to cynically disrespect the constitution and thus provoke civil war.

      His older relatives claim that before 1964, the people were reduced to misery, and that the misleading increase in wages became inoperative in the face of intentionally abusive government spending. Active guerrillas scavenged attacks everywhere; kidnappings and bombs were scenes of everyday life, and the rise of communism seemed irresistible. It would not be wrong at all to think that at any moment bloodshed would be inevitable.

      Society was languishing, especially the great masses who observed that the communists, heavily jammed in the federal administration and supported by the President of the Republic, had in the leftist military and in the Soviet high foreign leadership, the authorization to unleash a civil war and deploy a regime of the kind existing in the socialist country of Cuba with Recognition of the Tricontinental Conference of Havana.

      Remarkably similar to what was seen recently in the drawing that the left had been drafting since the 90s with the São Paulo Forum, and which was strangled by the reaction of the masses when electing a right-wing and conservative candidate in 2018.

      The great newspapers, at the time of the 1960s, incited the general cry of the people that there should be a enough and an outside - said and written by the remarkable intellectuality.

      Prior to the arrival of the military to the summit of power, a series of transformations occurred from internal blows. No one expected to culminate in the 1964 event. On the night of March 31 to April 1, a military mobilization - sort of improvised in a revolution, did little more than two victims: one accidental and

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