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 Post subject: The REAL Lone Survivor
PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:09 pm 
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Marcus Luttrell on Facebook. Seems he is a Breitling fan. :)

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Nice choice of watch, a nice looking lady....... but that solid wood sofa has gotta be the most uncomfortable thing in the world!

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Driver, that dude is harder than woodpecker lips. He probably thinks it's soft, lol. :lol:

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Who is he?


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wikipedia is our friend - did you donate lately ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Luttrell


and yes, you have to be a slightly masochistic hero to sit on that "sofa" for more than 5 minutes.
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Dracha wrote:
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Description as Fred said. But he was also immortalised on film fairly recently by "Marky Mark" Wahlberg in the film 'Lone Survivor'.

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If any of you guys want to see a harrowing true story of combat survival, watch "Lone Survivor". Or read the book. I am an Iraq War veteran and it is not easy to watch. That being said, it's a great story. As Driver mentioned, Marcus is played by Mark Walberg.

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The book IMO is absolutely fantastic. The movie not so much....I saw it the day it came out and a bunch of people in the theater were actually laughing and whooping it up in parts. It really rubbed me the wrong way. A friend of mine (along with 15 others) was killed on the helo going in to rescue the original 4 of which Marcus was the only survivor. I'm thinking that clouded my judgment of the movie. So want to give the movie another try in my house.
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