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Coming from a broken family to becoming one of the mentally strongest people I think I have had the pleasure of reading about Brian Corrigan, it has to be said is one tough guy.
You begin to wonder where this chap gets his inspiration from at the start, but it's quickly evident that his family and morals are what drives him.
The situations I would say he "gets himself" into are adrenalin pumping: like a drug for him and are like Hollywood movies - you wonder when someone is going to come out with a movie on his life "The Brain Corrigan Story".
Us as "common people" will never feel the fear or intensity men like Brian had to come accustomed to.
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I myself grew up on an base in New Zealand & my father flew into East Timor on missions but nothing to the extent of Brian's solider life. So as a young child I went through some of the emotions named at the starting of this book and was starting to relate. War in East Timor and Iraq are so well described in this book "In Harms Way" for instance........
"By the time everyone in our team who could open fire was doing just that,while we started to negotiate the J-turn.The rear vehicle slowed down,allowing the passenger vehicle and my car to get back into position while small arms fire was raining down all around us. And just as my car was turning around i saw a RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) heading towards us..............
And Carries on like this going into much detail but I can't give away the story cause that's a bloody good bit!!.
