So, I just got done reading this amazing story. Actually, amazing isn't the right word to describe it. I'm not sure how to fully convey the effect this book had on me as a person. I laughed, I cried, I laughed again. It was called From Baghdad, With Love; and it's a true story. It's about this soldier who found this puppy and his fight to get him home to America against all the odds. The ending of it, will make even the most stoic of people shed a tear or two. Personally, it had me bawling like a baby.
As such, I have decided to write a fictional story along the same lines. I think I'm going to need help with it though, seeing as I'm not exactly up to date on anything military (let alone marines), or what's going on over in Iraq right now. So, if any of you can help me out, that would be greatly appreciated. I'm serious about this story. It's calling to me like no other idea, other than The Watchers, has. (I'm still working on the Watchers, I'll be working on this story when I have writer's block for it). Wow, this is a pretty large post, isn't it? Hell of a lot bigger than what I usually do. Heh. Anywho, if anyone can get back to me on this, it would be great. You can either send it to me as a message here (and chance that I won't see it since I got months at a time without even coming here), or you can send it to my alias email account (which I check regularly) at youravengingangel@gmail.com.
Oh, by the way, the name of the story is going to be Heart of a Warrior. I'm still working out everything that will be going on it, but I do know it's going to be about a soldier who's entire battalion is killed by insurgents right outside of Baghdad, and he's the only survivor. He finds this puppy, can't be very old, in an old building whose only inhabitants are rats, and the corpses of his mother and siblings who have been shot in the head. For some reason, he's the only survivor. I decided this so that the soldier would feel a kinship for him straight away. :)