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    No Joy: A Recon Marine's Tales of (Self) Destruction
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    No Joy: A Recon Marine's Tales of (Self) Destruction

    By David Rose

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    "Going to war was a finite window to touch the vanquished barbaric world modern reality has so woefully blighted out."

    Joining the Marines in 2002, David Rose signed up to go fight ... and to go die. On this grim path, rather than finding a violent death, he would find family, purpose, and a brotherhood amid the misfit tribal world of the war fighter.

    No Joy sees David recounting madcap tales of Muay Thai bouts in seedy garages, a bizarre stint as a street cop, being on the other side of the badge, becoming a veteran of the psych ward, and more. It's an irreverently told story that doesn’t just tell one man's tale, but speaks to the necessary question: What really draws modern young men to war?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRare Bird Books, A Vireo Book
    Release dateSep 26, 2017
    ISBN9781947856028
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    No Joy: A Recon Marine's Tales of (Self) Destruction
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    David Rose

    David Rose is an award-winning entrepreneur and instructor at the MIT Media Lab, specializing in how digital information interfaces with the physical environment. A former CEO at Vitality, he founded Ambient Devices, which pioneered technology to embed Internet information in everyday objects like lamps, mirrors, and umbrellas. CEO of Ditto Labs, Rose has been featured in The New York Times and parodied on The Colbert Report. A frequent speaker at conferences and for corporations, he lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children. Enchanted Objects is his first book.

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      The exact opposite of your Fox News sanctioned Navy Seal military memoir. It's so very refreshing to read someone who dispenses with political correctness. Only a couple of stories are about the author's time in Iraq but, from a military point of view, it more than makes up for it towards the end of the book when he offers his, British college and veteran informed, view into the morals and motivations of the fighter.Just one quote ... "It’s a funny thing to consider. . . the people we “defended” were actually thanking people who were more of the mindset of the men they were terrified of, and then of course that means, in a singular way, we are more like the men we were fighting than the people hugging us at the airport."