My very good friend Scott Kesterson, who was the embedded reporter that was with my Task Force for the entire year I was over in Afghanistan has started working on his his documentary. I love the title of it, because this is what I refer to it as also. In fact, during an interview that Scott did with me I think I used this term once or twice.

Click the link below to keep up with the project as it develops.

The film: The Forgotten War

The pre-editing process has begun. Continue to check at the link below for updates on the film as the project proceeds.

Link: www.forgottenwarfilm.com/

During my tour in Afghanistan I sent in one of my blog entries to The Doonesbury website, The Sandbox. The Sandbox is a collection of blog entries from mostly forward-deployed bloggers. After my initial post, the editor and I started talking via email about my site and my blogs. I gave him full permission to use any blog entry off of my website and to use any picture he wanted to. Ever since then we stayed in close contact and over the rest of my deployment, and even a time or two after I returned, they posted many of my blog entries.

Well they decided to put together a book of a collection of different blogs that appeared on the site. I was asked by the Editor to send him a few of my pictures in high-resolution so they could use them, and much to my surprise they are using two of them on the cover. At first I thought it would be just one of my pictures (one of me with my Chuck Norris figure in the gun hatch), but in a article I just read at www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/133991.html
it shows another picture of mine from a suicide bomber attack. They are using several of my blog entries in the book, and ironically of the 39 posters that they have entries from three of us are from the same FOB. CPT B. Tupper (from my NY team) was who I referred to as BJ in my blog and he has several entries in this book also. The Doonesbury publisher is going to send me three copies of the book free since I have at least one entry published in the book.

Quite a few people have asked me if I planned to write a book of my year in Afghanistan and I have started giving it serious consideration. I have already started to map out an outline for it and some other ideas. I will post more is that idea moves forward.

I updated the original blog entry with this paragraph. I forgot to mention that all proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Fisher House Foundation, which is my favroite charity.