Comments on: KSK Off-Topic: Some Thoughts on Veterans Day

By: jujrok

jujrok — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:06:21 +0000

LT: finish & publish the goddam book. You’re no longer a tank commander. You’re a fucking good writer. Fucking good writers are at their best when addressing subjects they know best. You know your war. Let the public know about it. Too few understand what’s happened there, why it’s important, or who’ve made it happened. They sure as shit won’t learn about it from the MSM. It’ll be your latest and best contribution to a war effort that sorely needs the help.

And it’ll get my head out of these fuckin air war college manuals.

With gratitude for your service and its remembrance,

Lt Col Derek Phillips, USAFR

By: OchosMustard

OchosMustard — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:06:17 +0000

Awesome read. I got there about a year and a half after the first push and I can remember feeling the same way. Now, being out of the corps and in school, I understand how hard it is to write about this without diluting the experience with funny stories about the guys or dialing down the worst parts even though I know it doesn’t help anyone to do so. Thanks for this.

By: Ridley

Ridley — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:49:03 +0000

*salute*

By: contrarycomet

contrarycomet — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:29:19 +0000

Best ever. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again. And yes, please finish that book.

By: ShirtsWithRandomTriangles

ShirtsWithRandomTriangles — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:56:52 +0000

Thanks for this. I don’t really know what else to say.

By: Wes (aka UXO)

Wes (aka UXO) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:25:35 +0000

Happy belated 234th Caveman. Great read, lofty read.

By: Double Facepalm

Double Facepalm — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:59:06 +0000

Thanks for servicing Caveman. We really do appreciate what you want though in service to our country. Thanks to everyone else serving too.

By: Paroxysmic

Paroxysmic — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:34:27 +0000

From a long line of Marines, I say thanks, Uff. Semper Fi.

By: Swine

Swine — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:27:51 +0000

I’m late to the party here, but had to chime in on the chorus. Thank you for sharing, Matt, and thanks to you and all other veterans for your service and sacrifice on our behalf.

By: jackin'4beats

jackin'4beats — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:11:45 +0000

Well done Matt. Thanks again for sharing a little bit of what it was like to be at war with all the thoughts that were going through your head. If it wasn’t for brave men (and women) like you we wouldn’t be able to do what we do on a daily basis. I think we sometime take that for granted but it’s good to be reminded about where our freedoms come from.

When the book is finished I’ll be sure to get one.