1/14/2014 12:01 PM
I read the book when it came out. An excellent read. I probably will not see the movie although I hear it is good.
I just don't trust Hollywood to depict the book exactly as written. Around the same time I also read a book titled Ghost Soldier(s) about the Bantam death march. I had a lawn care client who was on that death march. I will never forget toward his end of life he could hardly walk out to his garage and meet me by his sprinkler clock. He had to stop and catch his breath and made the comment about all that he had been through in life he can't even walk around the house. He passed a little after that encounter but my memory of him will not, a stunning survivor and a stunning book.
Will Afghanistan survive, reform and prosper like Japan I doubt not. The same thought for Iraq as well.
Kevin Fateley
Wildcat Creek Golf & Fitness
Manhattan KS