- Graham Dale
Graham Dale,
Author of "The Green Marine"
Graham Dale was born in Raheny,
Dublin, Ireland in January 1978. Graham emigrated to the United States in 2000. He currently resides inCedar Park, Texas where he works as a computer network engineer. He is also an active Volunteer Firefighter and EMT with the Jollyville fire department in Austin, Texas.Graham is the author of a recently published book called the "Green Marine" where he chronicles his enlistment into the US Marines and tour of duty in Iraq. Upon witnessing the horrors inflicted upon his newly adopted country during the 911 attacks in the United States, Graham signed up to the US Marines and served his country for six years, including one tour in Iraq. His book provides a first hand account of his unique status of an Irishman in the US Marines from his days in training through to combat in Iraq.
The Green Marine - Amazon summary
An incredible account of one man's first hand experience of a conflict that continues to haunt the entire world. Dubliner Graham Dale, an IT specialist living in Texas, was working as a volunteer with a fire department when he heard that an airplane had hit the
World Trade Center in New York City. As the tragic events unfolded before his eyes, he suddenly realised that he could no longer remain a spectator in the face of this appalling atrocity. There and then he made a decision that was to affect the rest of his life; he drove to the nearest Military Recruitment Centre and enlisted in the US Marines. After surviving months of constant mental and physical torture in the notoriously tough Marine Boot Camp in San Diego, he joined the ranks of one of the most elite branches of the United States military and two years later found himself patrolling the dangerous wastes of the western desert in war-torn Iraq. Throughout his deployment in Iraq, Dale kept a daily journal to give us an astonishing, true account of one man's fight in the frontline of America's War on Terror. Told with brutal honesty, he gives us a unique and rare insight from an Irishman, fighting for a foreign military in a very foreign land.Interview on BBC Radio [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/radioulster/sunday_sequence/story3.ram]
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