I made myself...and all of you, a promise when I began writing this story that I would base all of Jasper's experiences on real life accounts of the 2003 Iraq War. Obviously, the personal tragedies have been fictionalised, and characters invented. Things have been embellished, played down, or just plain old made up. But, each and every story has been based on something that happened to real soldiers...American, British, Iraqi, Kurdish...it matters not. They are all men.
This news clip in particular inspired me right from the beginning. Imagine this from Garrett's eyes, from Ben's, from Jasper's...from Pete's if you dare...
It was indeed, a scene from hell.
Thank you sharing this story! I remember hearing about it at the time!
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So sad... thanks for sharing it with us, though. It reminds us to be thankful and supportive of our soldiers. Anything can happen and they face death and devastation every day.
ReplyDeleteMany blessings, Koko.
oxox Charli