In attempts not to confuse myself with books that are similar, I decided to pick a book that was very different than the last one. This is a non-fiction WWII story, which is the first non-fiction story I have read. Usually I like the historical fiction which is about 80% real and 20% fake for a story line. This book is all real, no story line, it is just about battle after battle after battle. What makes it even more interesting is the main character in the story is about 23 which you forget about 90% of the time except when he mentions something about age. Basically he is the only one to survive multiple battles and is always inheriting new recruits and new officers. He said the green officers would be dead in a matter of minutes because they didn’t have any war sense and would die doing something stupid. There are also multiple instances of friendly fire or some other accident that ended up killing the Allies not the Germans. In one case because someone incorrectly read their map, they had a bunch of bombs dropped on them. Also the author talks a lot about medics, and how amazing they were because they were in the fight without a gun and would just run out there to help someone only to typically be killed by the other side.
Crazyness to think people were going through something so intense at a young age. There is no glorification of war in this book, it’s just about people killing each other and how pointless it can seem and is. I would suggest this book as it does give some very good accounts of all the battles this person was in from Normandy to Battle of the Buldge. A lot of the stories I have read take place in the Pacific not Europe so it was interesting to hear about what went on there. The book isn’t too graphic, but he does a good job of balancing the line of too much information and enough to really make you think about what is happening. War is a horrible thing, and hopefully with things like this book we can really remember how disruptive it is to life and civilization.

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So I ended up getting another new wireless router for the house. The E4200 Linksys I bought was having issues after about 3 weeks the wireless would just stop working and the light on top would flash. This is a common issue and was resolved by rebooting, I hate rebooting routers I shouldn’t have to deal with that. Also after rebooting it always had issues reconnecting with my wireless printer so I decided I would go all out on a new router. I love Asus products so figured I would try their routers. It was a little hard to find this one but I finally did at my local MicroCenter and bought it for the price that NewEgg had on sale.
So I guess this is what happens when you are a nerd you end up spending about 3 hours to figure out which remote you should get for your house. I am a big fan of Logitech so I knew it was going to be a Harmony Remote just a matter of which one. With prices ranging from $35-$500 I figured there were a bunch of things to consider. So I ended up with this one for about $69 for my entertainment center and love it. After deciding I didn’t want one that was touch screen, and didn’t need one that had RF capabilities I was able to get this along with Harmony PS3 adapter so I could control my PS3. Pairing and matching up brands was easy, they have a web based app that you just plug in your USB to the remote and then open the app select the model numbers you have and then program what you want each activity button to do. Love this thing and highly recommend it to anyone. Also the buttons click when you press them so it feels very high end and lights up at night so its easy to use whenever you want to use it.
