Comments on: What Would Sam Do? http://warhistorian.org/wordpress/?p=643 Toward a Broader Vision of Military History and National Security Affairs Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:34:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mark Grimsley http://warhistorian.org/wordpress/?p=643&cpage=1#comment-30686 Mark Grimsley Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:55:18 +0000 http://warhistorian.org/wordpress/?p=643#comment-30686 Bill Brown (scalawag14hotmail.com) Monday, September 26, 2005, 04:02 PM Thanks for forwarding this along. I have been following the actions in and around Fallujah, beginning with the deployment of the 82nd Airborne to the death of Blackwater contractors, and later efforts to bring the towm under allied control. This story was followed pretty heavily in the Raleigh (NC) News & Observer, especially since one of their reporters were embedded with the 82nd in Iraq. As an editor working on a documentary edition of North Carolina governors, my interest started from keeping a reference file due to the involvement of a NC based military unit to a military contractor, who had received business incentives to fund expand their business in Northeastern NC. As a military historian, these additional stories will continue to expand the story of Fallujah as a singular account of how events, individuals, and ultmately (sic) military units serve as a cataylist toward the development of a historical event. Kingdaddy (kingdaddy8sbcglobal.net) Wednesday, September 28, 2005, 04:03 PM Thanks for the book recommendation. Dana Shoaf (2willowoaksadelphia.net) Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 02:47 PM Mark, The discussion of Once an Eagle brought back a flood of memories. I read that book when I was younger--sometime between 14 and 16, I think. I was too young to catch some of the more complex elements of the book, but the gritty realism Myrer interjected into the book really captured me and has staid in my memory bank. Though I have not picked up the book in decades, I still remember vignettes from its pages. Dana Roberto de Sousa Causo (rscausoyahoo.com.br) Monday, November 7, 2005, 12:40 AM As happened with Dana, I read Once an Eagle when I was a kid--13 years old--, and it caused a great and lasting impression on me. (It was a Portuguese translation, of course.) I re-read it in English quite recently and the impact was just as big. But I wonder how come the brave actions of Capt. Ian Fishback failled to reach the international media... I watch CNN regularly and I am sure he was never even mentioned, when he merited a whole program about him. Roberto Bill Brown (scalawag14hotmail.com)
Monday, September 26, 2005, 04:02 PM
Thanks for forwarding this along. I have been following the actions in and around Fallujah, beginning with the deployment of the 82nd Airborne to the death of Blackwater contractors, and later efforts to bring the towm under allied control. This story was followed pretty heavily in the Raleigh (NC) News & Observer, especially since one of their reporters were embedded with the 82nd in Iraq.

As an editor working on a documentary edition of North Carolina governors, my interest started from keeping a reference file due to the involvement of a NC based military unit to a military contractor, who had received business incentives to fund expand their business in Northeastern NC.

As a military historian, these additional stories will continue to expand the story of Fallujah as a singular account of how events, individuals, and ultmately (sic) military units serve as a cataylist toward the development of a historical event.

Kingdaddy (kingdaddy8sbcglobal.net)
Wednesday, September 28, 2005, 04:03 PM
Thanks for the book recommendation.

Dana Shoaf (2willowoaksadelphia.net)
Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 02:47 PM
Mark,

The discussion of Once an Eagle brought back a flood of memories. I read that book when I was younger–sometime between 14 and 16, I think. I was too young to catch some of the more complex elements of the book, but the gritty realism Myrer interjected into the book really captured me and has staid in my memory bank. Though I have not picked up the book in decades, I still remember vignettes from its pages.
Dana

Roberto de Sousa Causo (rscausoyahoo.com.br)
Monday, November 7, 2005, 12:40 AM
As happened with Dana, I read Once an Eagle when I was a kid–13 years old–, and it caused a great and lasting impression on me. (It was a Portuguese translation, of course.) I re-read it in English quite recently and the impact was just as big. But I wonder how come the brave actions of Capt. Ian Fishback failled to reach the international media… I watch CNN regularly and I am sure he was never even mentioned, when he merited a whole program about him.
Roberto

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