swofford

To be real honest I have had the Anthony Swofford crush for some time now.


I read the book Jarhead early on not sure exactly when I first picked it up.

Later when my brother working with the Navy Reserves I sent him a copy to Horn of Africa

As a Former Marine and active duty during Desert Storm he would get it.

Then they made it in the movie. And being the good parent took my daughter (11 or 12) to see it on the Marine Corps birthday.

It was the Marine Corps birthday for goodness sakes how could I pass it up. That was literally a once in a life time opportunity.

Swofford wrote Exit A in 2007 and I posted.

His new book Hotels, Hospitals and Jails is good.

It is something like reading a diary of random thoughts. A guy trying to get his act together despite life’s obstacles.

I pre-ordered from Amazon months ago and finished it in 2 days.

I actually got a real book – not an ebook!

The way he writes a memoir is something I just cannot put my finger on…

He sounds happy and settled.

Washington Post review

this happened a few weeks ago

hits close to "home"
Remains of U.S. pilot missing since ’91 found
Speicher’s disappearance in Iraq had bedeviled investigators for 18 years

WASHINGTON - The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War have been found in Iraq, the military said Sunday, a sorrowful resolution of a nearly two-decade old question about the fate of Navy Capt. Michael "Scott" Speicher.
The Pentagon said the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology on Saturday positively identified the remains, buried in the desert and located after officials received new information from an Iraqi citizen about a crash.
Speicher's disappearance has bedeviled investigators since his fighter was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the 1991 war. more