{"id":34207,"date":"2013-02-18T10:07:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34207"},"modified":"2013-02-18T10:07:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:07:38","slug":"robert-patrick-lewis-love-me-when-im-gone-a-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34207","title":{"rendered":"Robert Patrick Lewis: Love Me When I&#8217;m Gone, a book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Robert Lewis asked me to review his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Love-Me-When-Im-Gone\/dp\/0985940417\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1361139244&#038;sr=1-1\">Love Me When I&#8217;m Gone<\/a> about his career with Special Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course, you know me, the first thing I did was ask him for a copy of his DD214, and after he sent it, his wife loaned me her copy of the book on Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>The story s a perfect mix of war stories, soldiers&#8217; friendly banter, and it gives a great look at the training and personal dedication of all soldiers, not just Special Forces soldiers. And through out the book, Robert tries to maintain a relationship with a young actress. <\/p>\n<p>There are some white-knuckle combat for those of you who want to get a sense of what goes through a soldier&#8217;s head while he&#8217;s engaged with the enemy. The writing is so good that I could feel my own heart increase it&#8217;s beat rate. <\/p>\n<p>It also gave me a feeling for what my son experienced while he was deployed to a hospital in the theater. So, I&#8217;m grateful for that. But, you should read this book, if you have any interest in the war against terror and what influences young people go off to that war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Robert Lewis asked me to review his book, Love Me When I&#8217;m &hellip; <a title=\"Robert Patrick Lewis: Love Me When I&#8217;m Gone, a book review\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34207\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Patrick Lewis: Love Me When I&#8217;m Gone, a book review<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}