Hi Sebastian! Thank you for your great work in portraying the lives and deaths of soldiers in modern war. It's always been my dream to be a soldier and I trained for long to fit in. And i have never been able to put in words really why, so my family and friends could understand that desire. It's been with me for most of my life and I've always had the utmost respect for servicemen.
Reading war and watching Restrepo really opened my eyes to what that life really is. And in one passage of the book you quoted Roby Wilson saying he'd take the first helicopter back (to Restrepo hill) tomorrow.
My question is, having been a conflict correspondent, and studied the tribe mentality of people in the service, do you believe some of us are just born for this, or is there some kind of inherited trait/nurtured behaviour that drives us in search of our tribe?
I have yet to read your book as it hasn't shipped to my country yet, but I'm very much looking forward to it.
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Hi Sebastian! Thank you for your great work in portraying the lives and deaths of soldiers in modern war. It's always been my dream to be a soldier and I trained for long to fit in. And i have never been able to put in words really why, so my family and friends could understand that desire. It's been with me for most of my life and I've always had the utmost respect for servicemen.
Reading war and watching Restrepo really opened my eyes to what that life really is. And in one passage of the book you quoted Roby Wilson saying he'd take the first helicopter back (to Restrepo hill) tomorrow.
My question is, having been a conflict correspondent, and studied the tribe mentality of people in the service, do you believe some of us are just born for this, or is there some kind of inherited trait/nurtured behaviour that drives us in search of our tribe?
I have yet to read your book as it hasn't shipped to my country yet, but I'm very much looking forward to it.
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