victories following the invasion of afghanistan. the event just over an hour was hosted by the university club of chicago. welcome to. it s a pleasure and an honor to speak here about horse soldiers. it s true, i did work for work, robert frost s former estate in vermont and had a kind of varied various checkered jobs on my way to becoming a full-time writer. in 2003 had published the last addition of my first book, in harm s way, and that led indirectly to horse soldiers. i m going to talk about that this afternoon about how i arrived and the story of these special forces soldiers in afghanistan means. horse soldiers is a book about 900 young men in world war ii who in july, 1945 were dumped into the pacific ocean and through negligence left to drown. we come to know this story through the movie jaws, the monologue about captain guinn being aboard that ship and so on and so forth. these men really existed and some were from our area here who, and i went and i m