If you aren’t moved by the story of fallen friends and comrades Travis Manion and Brendan Looney you’re a much harder nut to crack than I am.
The good people at Da Capo Press sent us a few copies of this remarkable story so that we can share them with you. You may have read Travis’s and Brendan’s story a couple of weeks ago in Parade Magazine, which is where I first heard about these two fallen heroes. Here’s how the book’s promotional website describes their story:
Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, the President of the United States stood in Arlington National Cemetery. In his Memorial Day address, he extolled the courage and sacrifice of the two young men buried side-by-side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, these two best friends and former roommates were now buried together—“brothers forever.”
Award-winning journalist Tom Sileo and Travis’s father, former Marine colonel Tom Manion, tell the intimate and personal story of how these Naval Academy roommates defined a generation’s sacrifice after 9/11, and how Travis and Brendan’s loved ones overcame heartbreak to carry on in their memory. From Travis’s incredible heroism on the streets of Fallujah to Brendan’s anguished Navy SEAL training in the wake of his friend’s death and his own heroism in the mountains of Afghanistan, Brothers Forever is a remarkable story of friendship, family, and war.
First three responses to me at james@goodmenproject.com get copies. Please include “Brothers Forever” in the subject line.
