Sunday, May 30, 2010

Book review: the war

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/books/review/Filkins-t.html

'And here is Lt. Col. Bill Ostlund, the battalion’s commander, instantly recognizable to anyone who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan, “seemingly immune to heartbreak, way more knowledgable than most of the press corps that came through and capable of working 18 hours a day for 15 months straight,” Junger writes: “He had such full-on enthusiasm for what he was doing that when I was around him I sometimes caught myself feeling bad that there wasn’t an endeavor of equivalent magnitude in my own life.”'

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