At the moment I am finishing Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and I must say that it is amazing. Its heartwarming and clever and overall just beautiful. The man truly did deserve his nobel prize in literature.
Starting that tonight. (Sequel to Level Zero Heroes)I got the 2nd book of his Dagger 22
The Last Season, about a ranger (Forest) who was a top SAR person, disappeared himself, and the Forester’s coordination in an attempt to find him. The protagonist, not a perfect person, but a damn good one, reminded me a lot of myself in some ways. (Minus the affair).Even though I long sold my soul to Apple, I recently purchased a Kindle for reading.
Currently I am on an Eric Blehm kick. Finishing up By Eric Blehm The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Fought for a New Afghanistan
Then moving on to The Last Season
I’ll work my way through his catalog from there.
Why didn’t Ripley receive the MoH for his actions?
That's a good question. Certainly worthy of the award. My guess would be there was only one American who could verify what he did, an army advisor who helped him.
There is at least one with zero witnesses, Bud Day. He’s the only author of his trek across the DMZ. I’m sure there are others with only one witness.
Ripley was robbed.
The Terminal List by Jack Carr
True Believer by Jack Carr
Non-fiction at the moment, both really good reads though. Actually getting in the way of my college homework somewhat.
The Last Season, about a ranger (Forest) who was a top SAR person, disappeared himself, and the Forester’s coordination in an attempt to find him. The protagonist, not a perfect person, but a damn good one, reminded me a lot of myself in some ways. (Minus the affair).
Currently halfway into Fearless, the story of SEAL, Adam Brown. This is the antithesis of your typical “I was there” book. Brown (now deceased) was a man with many demons, demons that possessed him long before joining the Navy. It was a path through God that led him to the SEAL’s.
Blehm writes this story in a way that is so powerful, I actually found myself laying my Kindle on the table for a few minutes because I could see coming the next self-destructive thing Brown was about to do.
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I feel like I am underselling this book and man. SEAL Adam Brown was one very tough man. The injuries and adversity that he pushed through to keep driving forward are only more impressive because he didn’t write the book about himself, someone else wrote it about him, and people lined up to make sure they could get a personal Adam Brown story on the record before they deployed again.