Michael Yon’s post makes me proud to be an American again and I agree with Antimedia and

As far as I’m concerned, LTC Erik Kurilla of the Deuce-Four (Mosul, Iraq) IS Superman. Seriously… (Trying to help Michelle Malkin out by promoting this post/story at Whizbang and Outside the Beltway, too. *LOL*)

We’ve often told our readers how vitally important it is to read the milblogs, to know and understand what is really happeneing in Iraq. Not just for rah-rah purposes, as good as that might feel after slogging through the media’s ever-neg…

There is not much anyone else can say about Michael Yon’s latest, Gates of Fire. One simply reads it in a manner of one fell swoop, because one cannot read it any other way. The very first sentence, Combat comes

Michael Yon former Special Forces current free lancer

Wow. Anyone who wants to know what is going on with our guys in Iraq, beyond the typical mainstream media headline stating how many people were killed by an IED (with no context, for example, as to what anyone was doing), check out Michael Yon. Yon is …

Michael Yon’s latest piece, “Gates of Fire” is up. As usual, it should be required reading for everyone. No qualifications. Everyone. Yet again, Yon describes the human drama, the individual, heroic, professional personalities of our soldiers in Iraq…

Via Blackfive and Michael Yon we have learned of a Colonel that led a unit that was pinned down for over four hours despite being wounded, (Colonel James Coffman, awarded the DSC), a Battalion CO ( LTC Erik Kurilla) calling a wounded soldier’s mother t…

While the MSM is camped out in Crawford with Cindy Sheehan, Michael Yon is writing superb articles about what it’s really like in combat zones in Iraq.

This is a record of the unbelievable heroes who are bearing the burden of freeing Iraq and fighting our enemy on foreign shores. One of them is worth a million Moores.

That’s all I have to say after reading Gates of Fire from Michael Yon. Gripping, descriptive, engaging. Reporting at it’s best in the worst of environments.Kurilla was running when he was shot, but he didn’t seem to miss a stride;

Go read Michael Yon’s Gates of Fire
I have nothing to add, but God Bless the U.S.A. and protect our boys.

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Michael Yon is bravely covering the war like it should be covered, he is more than embedded. Read the whole thing here you wont be dissapointed. Also if possible donate to his site to keep him up and running. He is a free Lance journalist with military e

That terrorist, Khalid Jasim Nohe, wants you dead, too. He can’t hurt you now, because brave men ran after him, cornered him, ran into a dark room after him, and with their bare hands took him out. What kind of people do you want speaking for you, de…