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Kaboom (book)
''Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal'' was a popular military blog from November 2007 to June 2008, before it was shut down by the writer's military command hierarchy, chain of command. The author of the online journal, who went by the pseudonym of LT G, wrote about the front-line experiences in the Iraq War as a United States Army soldier. A scout platoon leader, LT G often incorporated the trials and tribulations of his platoon in his writings, offering a brash and brutally honest perspective of modern warfare. ''Kaboom'' was shut down, and subsequently deleted, after LT G made a post detailing his turning down of a promotion in an effort to stay with his soldiers. Before ''Kaboom'' was shut down, it was one of the few military blogs to garner attention and press coverage from the print media. This can be attributed to LT G's literary writing style. In a nationally published story chronicling the rise and fall of ''Kaboom'', LT G was revealed to be Matt Gallagher (author), Matt Gall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Gallagher (author)
Matt Gallagher (born February 24, 1983) is an American author, former U.S. Army captain and veteran of the Iraq War. Gallagher has written on a variety of subjects, mainly contemporary war fiction and non-fiction. He first became known for his war memoir Kaboom (2010), which tells of his and his scout platoon's experiences during the Iraq War. He works as a writing instructor at Words After War, a literary nonprofit devoted to bringing veterans and civilians together to study conflict literature. In 2015, Gallagher was featured in '' Vanity Fair'' alongside Elliot Ackerman, Maurice Decaul, Phil Klay, Kevin Powers and Brandon Willitts, as the voices of a new generation of American war literature. Among other media, he's appeared on ''CBS News Sunday Morning, PBS NewsHour'', ''BBC News'' and NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show." Gallagher was interviewed in September 2016 at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan by General (Retired) David H. Petraeus. In January 2017, Senator Elizabeth Warren re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |