12/18/2023 0 Comments Long road homeWhy doesn't somebody make movies about every soldier who dies at war, rather than dumb guys who have to cut their arms off to survive? How come? Seriously.Īnyway, I finished this book in 48 hours. But to die because you are defending freedom and ending terrorism and oppression - that is one of the very few ways to die in the world that actually has meaning. You die because you're old, you die in a car accident, you die because you get you arm stuck under a rock in a canyon - those are all deaths with no real meaning. It's so meaningless", I say "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" Almost every death in the world is meaningless. So when people say "That soldier died for nothing. They're doing it to protect us, to bring freedom to those who are oppressed, and to make the world a better place for the next generation. What are they doing that's awesome? They're leaving their family, home and comfortable life behind to bleed and die for US. On the other hand, the soldiers in this book are being killed and wounded in a horrific manner left and right. I'm kind of impressed that he managed to pull the whole thing off, but was there really anything heroic, or THAT awesome about what he did? Search and rescue crews have to risk their lives trying to recover people like him. I could never do what he did."īut really, what did HE do? He was reckless and took unnecessary risks, and he almost lost his life because of it. I read online (and watched youtube videos) about Aron Ralston (the arm guy), and saw lots of people say "Wow! What an amazing man!!" And "He has my respect forever. I ususally do not handly gore very well, but for some reason I seem to be getting older and more hardened, and I didn't stop the movie, or stop reading. The first few pages of this book are also pretty gory. I started reading this book about part of the war in Iraq the same night I finished watching the movie "127 Hours" about the guy who got trapped in a canyon and cut his own arm off to survive. This intimate portrait of the close-knit community of families Stateside-the unsung heroes of the military -distinguishes "The Long Road Home" from other stories of modern warfare, showing the horror, terror, bravery, and fortitude not just of the soldiers who were wounded and killed but also of the wives and children whose lives now are forever changed. The firefight in Sadr City marked the beginning of the Iraqi insurgency, and Martha Raddatz has written perhaps the most riveting account of hand-to-hand combat to emerge from the war in Iraq. So the families banded together in anticipation of the heartbreak that was certain to come. In time, some of the women in their circle would receive "the call"-the notification that a husband or brother had been killed in action. Back home, as news of the attack began filtering in, the families of these same men, neighbors in Fort Hood, Texas, feared the worst. Over the course of the next forty-eight hours, 8 Americans would be killed and more than 70 wounded. In April 2004, soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division were on a routine patrol in Sadr City, Iraq, when they came under surprise attack. From ABC White House correspondent Martha Raddatz, the story of a brutal forty-eight-hour firefight that conveys in harrowing detail the effects of war not just on the soldiers but also on the families waiting back at home.
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