RE: http://www.military.com/entertainment/books/book-review...helf-honoring-heroes

What powerful stories! These both sound like great reads.

I may have to go out and pick these up

They're both a MUST READ, especially for those who take their citizenship and freedoms for granted. Those stories written are the living tales that have always defined what it is to be part of the Military Community, MY Community, OUR Community. A community that has always existed within the greater communities of our great country but bears the burdens of our freedoms like no other. Only now is the divide that developed between those communities since the polarization of the Vietnam Era (and the years shortly after) has there been a movement to re-establish the connection between those two worlds. It used to be that people knew their military neighbors and had a first person knowledge and understanding of what that meant. They once knew, cared, even expressed gratitude but that waned in the face of an unpopular war.

In the absence of this interaction came media-driven streotypes, Hollywood-generated 2-dimensional characters that took the place of real knowledge, real people. Many honorable men, women of our services suffered from an unprincipaled prejudice provided by the falsehoods of the self-serving and ignorant portrayals of those in uniform in times of peace, but the worst were those in times of war, how utterly misguided. But that will change, God Willing.

These works of literature from the heart, are telling the truth of what it means serve and what the ultimate costs are and who bears the ultimate cost: sacrifice.

I welcome these writings, as a Proud Army Brat who has become a Proud Father of a Marine, I see little desire in seeing our military community become an ISOLATED community in this long and difficult time of war, while we again, bear the huge costs and burdens of it as the rest of America continues to "go to the Mall".

I have and will continue to write, post, portray our great men & women in all the services as the heroes the are...

Honors to Dad (Garry Owen!), my Son (Semper Fi) and all who have stood in Harm's Way, so that we may continue to LIVE FREE...

And it is because of them, what they do for each other and for US, that gives reason to why MY HEROES have always been:

Soldiers, Marines, Sailors (SeaBees: Can Do!), Airmen AND Coasties...

From a Veteran's Son, Brother & Father.

Psalm 144:1-2 "Blessed be the LORD my strength which
teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: My
goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my
deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who
subdueth my people under me those who rise up against US."

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