Jules C. is starting a running series of reviews of two Iraq War memoirs--Rage Company and Kaboom.

I've thought about writing my own memoirs and even had conversations with literary agents, but I think I need to be finished running around the wars before I write a memoir about my adventures running around the wars.  (Speaking of which I'll be jetting off to Afghanistan soon.)

The challenge with my memoirs would be utter idiocy of what I have done...imagine the blurb description on Amazon.

"JD Johannes quit a good job as a political appointee and campaign operative, bought a TV camera and ran off to Iraq with his old Marine Corps unit as an embedded reporter.  He was pretty good at the work, combat didn't bother him much, so he kept doing it for five (or more) years.  When the wars ended he got some dude elected to a down ballot state-wide office and resumed his mundane life.  He also writes silly workout books."

Okay, maybe I could come up with something flashier than that but those are the basic facts I have to work with.

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