The Other McCain brings us Thinking About Mogadishu
This is a story about his son, Staff Sgt. Robert McCain. It starts with remembering Black Hawk Down.
The intensity of that movie, which I took Bob and his twin brother Jim to see when it first came out, sort of caught me by surprise at the time. I grew up watching war movies like The Longest Day, and the TV series Combat, and playing with G.I. Joes, and so the thought of taking my kids to see a war movie seemed like a great idea. The graphic realism of Black Hawk Down was, as Bob later told that reporter, maybe too much for a 9-year-old, even if it did inspire his future career ambitions. In case you haven’t subscribed to my Substack newsletter yet, you may not understand why I bring that up now, given that I start today by talking about the war in Ukraine.
You can find the full story at the link, and the full story on Ukraine at the Substack post: Is Ukraine Winning Now?
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