The Gift of Valor
256 pages
Type:war story, biography
Time: 2-3 hours
Synopsis: Story involving some battles in Iraq (namely, Husaybah), mostly about Corporal Jason Dunham, who placed his helmet over a grenade, absorbing most of the blast. He ended up dieing a couple weeks later (pretty much never came too) and has been nominated for the medal of Honor.
Thoughts: Good story, although the tone of the book is a little too GI Joe for my liking. Understandbly so, though, but considering i work around a buncha marines and see how much of morons they can be.. then again, this IS in wartime. They play him out as a hero, which i dont doubt at all that he is.. but well you get the idea
I actually got to meet the writer of the book. He had toured Iraq 4 times. Kinda neat.... It's pretty sad, and you think about how he had to interview everyone, especially the family, who had to relive jason's death all over again (gradual death which went on for dozens of pages)
The author had his book signed, from some people he had worked with as well as the family. I saw some chicken scratch writing thinking 'WTF'. i finaly got to look at it and it was written from the sister of Jason, who wrote 'Thank you for writing abou my brother'