America

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I read a lot of books about America.

(And I really and truly liked them all)

American Sniper
Lone Survivor
No Easy Day

And I saw the movie Unbroken. 
Twice.

And none of those men are born authors,
They never had blogs 
And nations like Iraq and Afghanistan are pressed into their passport pages instead of France.

But I wish my words carried half as much weight as theirs.

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