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Before he would ever know it, Matt Gallagher was at the forefront of new veteran voices fighting the Global War on Terror. Literally. He unknowingly launched his literary career through live-blogging while deployed in an Army stryker combat unit in Iraq, until it was shut down by his superiors. The blog was titled “Kaboom,” dripping in the honest takes and dark humor that could only come from a line officer who was self-aware of his moment in history even as he was apart of it.
Matt Gallagher survived not only to publish a memoir: Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War, but also to co-edit one of the definitive collections of Iraq and Afghanistan veteran anthologies, Fire and Forget. We meet up with Matt right after the publication of his novel, Young Blood, to talk about his experiences and what the future holds for future service members.
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