Category: War Stories

Guy Gabaldon used his street smarts and knowledge of the Japanese language and culture to perform an extraordinary feat.

“You were either going to die or get shot all to hell,” Billy Waugh said. “Everyone in the outfit was wounded once, twice, three times.”

I’ve seen visualization work. I don’t care what field you’re in, visualization can help you, especially in high-stress environments.

They jumped out of the dark. The oldest held a kitchen knife that looked like it had been dipped in shit about three lifetimes ago.

“If you saw what you heard today in a movie, you would shake your head and say, ‘That didn’t happen.’ But it does, every day.”

For many of us, there is no end to this war. There never will be an end to it. Is there a day that goes by that we don’t think about our war?

While he was a more than capable Green Beret, Richard Flaherty — who was just 4 feet, 9 inches tall — had to fight just to join the Army.

There I was, on the border of Iraq, butt naked, struggling to get a new belt on our Bradley, while rockets and artillery lighted up the sky.

Some war stories are about gunfights and HALO jumps. But the best ones involve copious amounts of contraband and a few knuckleheads.

Her courage was never questioned, and “her brain worked with the speed and smoothness of skates on ice.”

Within a few smacks on the roof tack with the bottom edge of the can it burst, completely engulfing his head and face.

Today, we would call Joshua Chamberlain, the rhetoric professor with a stutter, a nerd. How wrong would we be!