If you like the book, please post a review on amazon. [inaudible] conversation [inaudible conversations] croons croons providing live coverage. Iraq war veteran phil klay is next on book tv. Heeho discusses his collection f short stories about soldiers who fought in iraq and afghanistan and the experiences they had while back in the u. S. Between deployments. This is 45 minutes. Thank you. There we go. Thanks so much for coming here. Good to be here. This is my first time in l. A. So be good to me. Its a thrill to be here with tony. So, the book is twelve short stories from different perspectives. And im going to start out with a just read the opening of the story about an artillery unit, called ten clicks south. Large base, and the fabs in iraq. Youre in a combat zone but theyre large, really secure, and theyre like little miniature cities. They have, like, workout facilities and a chow hall and theres some some marines who never left them who were referred to as fabits, and this stor
Be good to me. It is a thrill to be here monday. So the book is 12 short stories all from different perspectives. In them going to start out with just read the opening of the story about an artillery unit. The story is called ten. South. An artillery unit on this large base. You are in a combat zone. Large, really secure. They are of little, major cities they have, you know, like workout facilities to my chow hall. There would be some marines that never left about. This story is set on kampf loser some marine had recorded the song set to the tune of hotel california. The course was, welcome to the hotel camp. Youre in a combat zone. Go get your ice cream cone. Its sort of gives you the field. But an artillery unit. Theyre actually engaged. All right. This morning again dropped about 270 pounds of icn. We took out a group of insurgents and then went to the chow hall for lunch. I got fish and lima beans. I tried the healthy. At the table all nine of a smiling and laughing. I still jitter
The interviewer looked stricken. Her supervisor quickly looks down at her notes. Shame wild and my throat and eyes. My humiliation was absolute. Even the doctors were laughing at me. Welcome to the office of Veterans Affairs psycho boy. [applause] thank you thank you very much. Again, thank you so much for coming. I really honestly very, very much appreciated. We have some time for questions. Michael and james are going to circulate with the microphone. Any questions . I am happy to take them. About any part of the story, past, present, future. Boy, that first one is always the hardest, isnt it . Someone is going to ask that first question. Thank you. I say that before i hear the question. Been to your story is a very personal one, something that is much larger and yourself. So stepping back from your disempowered act of witnessing, at least you were witnessing, do you have a broader conclusion about how International Organizations can operate more effectively . I have a couple of thin
Lyceum on a checkpoint. A group of insurgents and then went to the child of a launch. I got fish and lima beans. I try to a healthy. All nine of us are smiling and laughing. Still jittery. A big plate of ravioli and pop types. Before digging in, the persian gulf, the they have pumped cuts everywhere . Another better, too. Weird. He looks up and down the table. I cannot believe we finally had a mission. Its about time we kill someone. Even i chuckle little. We had been in iraq two months when the artillery units actually doing artillery, except so far we have only shot elimination missions. They usually dont want to risk collateral damage. Not us, not until today. Today the old and battery fires and we know we hit our target. Religion until the so. Pretty quiet. How many insurgents to you think we killed . Platoon size elements. What . Platoon size . Hq i dont have platoons. Why do you think we need the old and battery. We didnt . Each gun only fired two rounds. They just wanted us all
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