Awesome!

Well, was it fair and balanced?

Are you pleased with it?

Maggie

you played a part in a very amazing thing in Iraq. I wish you nothing but the best in the future. you definitely earned it.

including marrying Natalie Portman

im interested in your opinion of whether the article was fairly written too.

“He began a nonfiction book of his Iraq tours, titled “Go Now, You Are Forgiven.” It is raw stuff: “You don’t think about back home sipping lattes at Starbucks. You learn to feel the ambience of a lone man in a crowd that wants you dead. You learn to feel an order to the world, like understanding how to move with traffic, and quickly sense when something is amiss.” The memoir is a work in progress, maybe for another time, when publishers are not bombarded with first-person narratives about a controversial war.”

“Go Now, You Are Forgiven.”

http://www.myspace.com/forgiventhebook

I wish you nothing but the best!

Thanks for your service, son.

Good luck and keep writing.

I am very pleased with this article; lary bloom included some of my literature in here, which will def help me reach my dreams (I hope)!

Good luck, Baby!

As a fellow writer I know it can be real tough, and can cut you to the heart and soul.

Write what YOU know about … how YOU want it written.

Stick with it, and Git `er Done!

Much respect to you from me, and of behalf of my family, I thank you for your service.

I also appreciate your support of this website, especially via good comments.

Proud to “kinf ” know you, bro.

You said this in the article:

“I am the golden child,” he told himself with a touch of guilt. And also the beneficiary of the “random geometry of chance,” as Nathaniel Fick, a former Marine captain, put it in his memoir, “One Bullet Away.”

This reminded me of what I heard a young fighter in a documentary I saw once said. The filmmaker was interviewing this kid, must’ve been 15 or 16 years old, but he had that stare…you could tell he was respected by his peers around him…

Anyway, the interviewer asked a question along the lives of living day to day literally dodging bullets.

The kid smiled and said “I dodge many bullets, but I cannot dodge the bullet that will kill me…”

That is one of my favorite all-time quotes, and I don’t even know the kid’s name, or if he is even alive today.

You obviously have more work to do here, bro.

Want to help promote the book when you get it done. Always down to support a brother vet.

Semper Fi

I will look for your works in the future. I’d be proud to add you to my collection.

I don’t read anything from the NYT anymore. I felt unwashed and dirty every time I did.

Good luck with your studies. Any thoughts on what you want to do once you graduate? Write full-time, or what?

Thanks for asking.

I’m not really too sure what direction I will head after graduation. The teacher mentioned in the article, Mary Collins, is one of the most well-regarded female creative non-fiction writers in the US. She used to teach the Johns Hopkins MA program, among many various things. She likes my stuff and assures me I could get in there; I don’t know if I can afford it though. I also don’t know if the payback for a program like that will be worth it.

Right now, I’m hoping to take any momentum gained from this piece and hopefully sell my manuscript.

In addition to writing, I also play drums in a band, and take photography pretty seriously. I would really like to do all three somehow - my dream is to be a renaissance man I guess.

I still think about going back into the corps a lot too; it was an abusive relationship sometimes but I totally miss being a Marine.

I know it’s costly out-of-pocket for them, but (with your military experience/conection and writing ability) have you thought about going the Michael Yon, Pat Dollard, indy-war-correspondence route for a bit?

Congrats on coming home with both sound mind and body.

Good luck with what ever you decide to do and thank you sir for your service to this great nation…

I’d love to buy you a beer but this is the best I can do for now

Cheers

And congrats on the writing, studies, etc…I see a bright future for you!

Thanks Marine!!!!

And all the best to you in your future travels.

Thanks for all you did, do and will hae done and for me, if you would thank your family as they are just as deserving.

Hard to believe the NYT actually wrote about something other than the drum beat of how evil we are.

Damn good poster too! Now I see why.

GN…

study hard and best of luck in the future.

I’ve thought about it. Generally speaking I want everything I write to be non-political. My manuscript, Go Now, You Are Forgiven, is as much about the marine corps and the war, as much as it is a love story and coming of age spiritual journey.

Part of the reason I got out of the Marines is I didnt want my friends and family to keep worrying about me all the time. For now, I want to keep out of combat zones; although that will probably change because I miss being around the nations finest professionals.

Feel free to email me sometime, I’m curious about your writing and always looking forward to networking with other authors. Gonowyouareforgiven@yahoo.com

Marc Stockwell-Moniz

I’m hoping to get with a legitimate publisher, build a fanbase and community, and then self publish. The literary equivalent of what the band Radiohead did.

Zeke Eagle

Fuck IVAW. I respect their right to speak; but a lot of them, Like Kokesh their spokesperson (who I served with) are full of shit and endanger there fellow brothers through their indignity.