Too Much Love
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend I wrote this as a dedication to our veteran's who have paid the ultimate price in defending our country and our freedom. This fictional story portrays Sergeant Logan Brandt. Sergeant Brandt and his platoon are trying to take a hill currently held by rebels. When the going get tough, Sergeant Brandt shows the incredible heroism of the American soldier. Product details and pricing info |
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- The Tie That Binds...Even Unto Death
- Joshua Berry has fashioned a magnificent tribute to The American Soldier. This tribute is all the more viable and authentic because in telling his tale Joshua hits on four eternal combat truths:
1) the role of chaos. A German field marshal once remarked that the plans for the best orchestrated campaigns go out the window in the first thirty seconds of battle. Joshua gives us plenty of that here. I well remember the whine of a bullet as it rushed by an inch or so from my ear...i felt the breeze of its backwash. Joshua gives us both a chaotic deadly terrain with the whine of close-passing bullets AND the well-trained responses of the American soldier...the ability to plan the impossible. Joshua collapses these two crucial elements of authenticity together... and properly names the one that prevails.
2)the role of dumb luck. No soldier can account for this, though many have tried. Some attribute it to divine intervention... some to the prayers of those supporting them back home...some to lucky charms. Throughout her second deployment in Iraq my daughter carried a crucifix given to her by her older brother and a coin given to her over Christmas by a Marine who had carried it all through Vietnam. Again Joshua gives us this in spades as the heartstopping struggle to save a wounded soldier's life unfolds. The "rebels" who are reputed lousy marksmen are suddenly making up for lost time. The squad's covering fire has devastating effect... the squad's covering fire ceases almost completely. Men run successfully all the way down an exposed slope...men are hit when they stick their heads up from a prone position. yep...you have to be there... it happens.
3) the role of adrenalin. Tales of acts of impossible strength and endurance under the influence of adrenalin are legion. Nothing gets the adrenalin pumping quite so quickly as whining bullets. Again, in Joshua's fine literary tale, he does not overlook this crucial factor in a true combat situation. Wounded men can and do what is impossible given their pain levels and physical injury.
and finally...and most importantly:
4) the code of the American soldier. This really is what this story is all about. As my daughter put it in an email to me:"we got the critical supplies of the convoy out of the kill zone then hauled ass back to our wounded buddies." Joshua strikes an emotional key with me in this story that is STILL making it tough to see the keyboard, and yet it is nothing new. The sublime devotion of the Air Force pathfinders as they penetrated deep into enemy territory to retrieve a single pilot and dustoff medics in Vietnam, as well as the common soldier in every war America has fought again comes through with all its so often poignant tragedy in this aptly named story.
There is no hell quite like war... there is no love quite like that of the American soldier for his/her comrades. Great story, Cowboy... Five Stars John W. Cassell
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- "No Greater Love"
- For Sergeant Logan Brandt the decision was an easy one. He didn't have to think about it or consider his personal safety. With the help of an understanding CO, Captain Bain, he had to try and save the life of a friend even if he had to disobey orders to do it.
The author captures what takes place in the heat of battle and how devotion to a brother in need outweighs all else. I believe you'll enjoy this story of bravery, honor, and love. - 2007-09-10, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
