Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my wife Lisa for a life time of friendship and the daily encouragement necessary to complete this work.

I’m grateful to my parents for giving me the confidence that comes from being loved.

Erin Celello, author extraordinaire, was an excellent mentor and coach to a guy that wanted to tell a story.

To the men of Charlie Company, 2-5 CAV, who always had my six: thank you, brothers.

And most of all, I thank God who was with me in the alley, who kept my feet from slipping and delivered me from a host of ten thousand.