My Men Are My Heroes: The Brad Kasal Story
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Contributor: Nathaniel R. HelmsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: 0696232367
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Meredith Books
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Book Review: Such a Shame
Summary: 2 Stars
I am three quarters the way through `My Men are My Heroes', and I will finish it - but I am so frustrated I had to stop and compose this critique.
Will this book EVER get to the actual reason the book was written. Long, long after we should have heard that Brad Kasal was one very tough Marine; that he led from the front and was larger than life - long, LONG after we DID read all that - the book is still coughing up the same old lines. We got it already.
In Chapter 14 `The House of Hell', instead of letting the story unfold and tell itself, the chapter is littered with pages with sub-titles like `NEVER QUITTING', which tells us that Brad Kasal is not a quitter. For crying out loud, we KNOW THAT already. And now is not the time to once again go into why Brad Kasal could not be with his other Marine teams - it has been explained too many times before. On and on, more information which does not belong in this chapter and was explained and gone over in the previous two-thirds of the book, is stuffed right where the action - we hope - is actually beginning.
This problem is not found just in the 14th Chapter; it extends throughout the whole book so far - but it is especially aggravating at this time of the story.
I will finish the book, and this story needed to be told, but it is just such a pity it had to be told so badly. `My Men are My Heroes' is a far better book than `Lone Survivor', an account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10, where I could not get passed the second chapter, but rather than ending up cheering the good guys on, I am ending up wanting to throttle the author. The book gets in the way of the story - and that should never happen.
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