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Post by Jeannette on Jan 11, 2008 13:47:51 GMT -5
I will post some of the books I have read here with teasers that I totally recommend along with a box of kleenex while you read them;) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
'A Table In The Presence' by Lt.Carey H.Cash
"You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies..." Psalm 23:5 There are some places where you just don't expect to find God. For the men of the 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment,downtown Baghdad was one of those places.Moving deeper into the heart of Iraq to seize control of the presidential palace,they found themselves face to face with the Iraqi Repuplican Guard and Fedayeen militia-an enemy who used civilians for human shields;an enemy who attacked from mosques,schools and hospitals;an enemy who,under the command of Saddam Hussein,raped its own people and threatened its own recruits with their families' lives if they turned from battle.
This was no place for God;this was enemy territory.But when the smoke settled,God's footprints were clearly visible.
Serving as a chaplain to U.S.Marines,Lieutenant Carey Cash had witnessed the miracles that began months earlier with a spiritual revival in the desert of Northern Kuwait,culminating April 10,2003,in one of the fiercest battles of Operation Iraqi Freedom.With vivid detail and gripping emotion,Lieutenant Cash gives a firsthand account of this amazing story-how the men of an entire battalion found God in the presence of their enemies.
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Post by samSForce on Jan 11, 2008 13:50:04 GMT -5
I will post some of the books I have read here with teasers that I totally recommend along with a box of kleenex while you read them;) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'A Table In The Presence' by Lt.Carey H.Cash "You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies..." Psalm 23:5 There are some places where you just don't expect to find God. For the men of the 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment,downtown Baghdad was one of those places.Moving deeper into the heart of Iraq to seize control of the presidential palace,they found themselves face to face with the Iraqi Repuplican Guard and Fedayeen militia-an enemy who used civilians for human shields;an enemy who attacked from mosques,schools and hospitals;an enemy who,under the command of Saddam Hussein,raped its own people and threatened its own recruits with their families' lives if they turned from battle. This was no place for God;this was enemy territory.But when the smoke settled,God's footprints were clearly visible. Serving as a chaplain to U.S.Marines,Lieutenant Carey Cash had witnessed the miracles that began months earlier with a spiritual revival in the desert of Northern Kuwait,culminating April 10,2003,in one of the fiercest battles of Operation Iraqi Freedom.With vivid detail and gripping emotion,Lieutenant Cash gives a firsthand account of this amazing story-how the men of an entire battalion found God in the presence of their enemies. What a coincidence...............I have that one on my bookshelf, just a few steps away from where I'm sitting now.......... .................Great thread, Jeannette! I will most certainly be adding to it
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Post by samSForce on Jan 11, 2008 13:52:39 GMT -5
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Post by Jeannette on Jan 11, 2008 14:25:47 GMT -5
I started reading this book on a plane to see my son on this last R&R...bad idea I couldn't stop crying LOL so I had to put it down until I got home...very powerful read
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Post by David on Jan 16, 2008 14:33:53 GMT -5
Eric Clapton's Biography. I went to Crossroads 2 in Chicago, absolutely amazing show. I was like one of the first 1500 people in the front. hehehe in fact you can see me on the inside booklet. Anyways, that book is GREAT. I found out some really interesting stuff. For example, Clapton's mostly deaf for one. I couldn't believe that. To be mostly deaf and play guitar THAT well, wow, what a feat.
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Post by acefighter on Jan 25, 2008 2:32:16 GMT -5
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy is my favorite book of all time. Basically U.S. & NATO vesus Russia, and I think it's extremely close to how it would really occur.
Another great book is In The Company Of Heroes by Michael Durant. He was the pilot of one of the two helicopters shot down during the battle of Mogadishu, and the one that the two Delta Force snipers, MSG Gary Gordon and SFC Randy Shughart, gave their lives protecting. He was taken prisoner, and released later. AWESOME book.
If you're into flight, "Yeager" by Chuck Yeager and "To Fly And Fight: Memoirs of a Triple Ace" by Clarence E. Anderson are both great book. They were friends and P-51D Mustang pilots during WWII, and, as some of you probably know, Chuck Yeager was the first person to break the sound barrier.
I'll have to remember some more and post them later...
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Post by speedysteph122 on Feb 1, 2008 19:57:17 GMT -5
Keep the Homefires Burning is goodl about various military SOs or Spouses and their experiences in dealing w/ the military life
There's anther one I can't think of the title, dammit about a younger reporter who is embedded w/ Marines in Iraq and how it really is as an embed.
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