Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Thug to Hero
In this story it was about a kid who when he was growing up got in a lot of trouble in middle school and high school. When he was 17 he decided he wanted to go into the military. his parents were very proud of his decision and his dad said"that's one of the only things that you have done that i support. so when he was 18 he joined the military. in his first battle his squad and him had to clear this building and before they could clear it that had to get to it and that was the hard part. there were 20 insurgents and 6 marines. The insurgents were putting down heavy fire on the marines and Martinez grabbed a RPG that a wounded insurgent drop and blew the building apart and i could really visualize that happaning.
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Reeve,
ReplyDeleteThis is a very strong image; I can tell how you could see it happening. I just wrote about this on Tyler's blog, but I think I am going to write it on yours, too. I just watched "The Hurt Locker" last night and I have some of those images still in my head. It is about a bomb specialist over in Iraq...you'd probably like it. It reminds me of your book; reading your post, I could see some of the images from the movie.
I asked this of Tyler and I think I'll ask you, too: Do you think it's weird that we don't know more about Iraq considering there are so many American men over there and we have been there for almost 10 years?
dear reeve, (ahaha)
ReplyDeleteNice detail, sounds like an interesting storyy and you connection was just amazing "i could really visualize it" ahaha, nice job
this book sounds like a i would read.
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