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Master Sergeant Sarun Sar was a member of the Seventh Special Forces Group.  Sar was in Afghanistan in 2003 and again in 2005.  When Sar arrived in the country for the second time, he and his team were engaged in as many as six or seven attacks a day.  Eventually, he was able to focus on his […]

Captain Jason Amerine was in Green Beret who was stationed in Kazakhstan training Kazakh paratroopers when he heard about the terrorist attaches on 9/11.  He and his team immediately returned to base to get their new orders.  Within days, they were headed to Afganistan.  The first mission for the Green Berets were to set up […]

At the time of the 9/11 attaches, Afghanistan was under the control of the Taliban.  The Taliban is a fundamentalist Islamic militia that had seized power in 1996. ” Because of their extreme interpretation of Islamic law, they banned most leisure activities and entertainment such as music, dancing, picnics, television, and sports.  Also forbidden were […]

Specialist Jason Mike’s dream was to be a professional football player.  He played collage football for Jacksonville University in Florida.  His dream was to go pro.  Specialist Mike’s father had a twenty year career in the military.  Specialist Mike’s dream changed after 9/11.  He joined t he military after that.  “I’m going to hang up my football […]

Staff Sergeant Daniel Bogart was a member of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, or EOD.  His job was to find and disable the improvised explosive devices, or IED’s.  Staff Sergeant Bogart was part of a route clearing mission that involved the EOD team, army engineers, and combat engineers.  They were in a convoy of 13 […]

When Corporal Workman lost his two friends in combat, he was extremely upset and showed such raw emotions.  For the first moments, he could not even move.  He had never seen a dead body before and was distraught by what he was seeing.  Even though he was upset, he showed great bravery when he got right […]

This section of the book is about Corporal Jeremiah Workman and his platoon who are in Iraq getting ready to leave on a mission and what happens once the mission starts.  In the fall of 2004, al-Fallujah was a city in Iraq that had vicious insurgents controlling the city.  The terrorists had killed American civilians, […]

Sergeant Scott Montoya describes being caught up in a firefight against Iraqi soldiers.  Rapid gunfire exploded all around him.  Sergeant Montoya and his men ducked behind a wall, dropped to the ground and started shooting back.  “RPG’s whistled overhead, and grenade blasts sent chunks of concrete into the air” (5).  Sergeant Montoya could not believe […]

“On September 11, 2001, the Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda struck the United States in a devastating terrorist attack.” (1)  It was the most devastating terrorist attack in the nation’s history.  Nearly 3000 innocent people were killed that day.  The attacks were done by 19 suicidal terrorists that hijacked four commercial jetliners.  The terrorists deliberately crashed two planes […]

Not playing video games was easier than I thought.  I did not miss playing my favorite games as much as I thought I would.  I was able to spend more quality time with my family talking, watching movies, and having family dinners at the kitchen table.  I would say giving up video games has had […]