Matthew Currier Burden
enlisted in the military at age seventeen. He served first as an Army aircraft crew chief, then a paratrooper, before joining
Special Operations. After receiving a commission as a cavalry officer and serving in Europe and Asia, he later became an intelligence
officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He left the military in July 2001 as a major in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Matthew Currier Burden is the author of The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and
Afghanistan. According to the book description of The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in
Iraq and Afghanistan, “Matthew Currier Burden founded www.blackfive.net, one of the most popular military
blogs on the Internet. His blog began as an homage to a friend killed on duty in Iraq and quickly became a source of information
about what was really happening in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In The Blog of War Burden presents
selections from some of the best of the military blogs, the purest account of the many voices of this war. This is the first
real-time history of a war, a history written even as the war continues. It offers a glimpse into the full range of military
experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, from the decision to enlist right through to homecoming. There are powerful stories of
soldiers in combat, touching reflections on helping local victims of terror and war, pulse-racing accounts of med-evac units
and hospitals, and heartbreaking chronicles of spouses who must cope when a loved one has paid the ultimate price. The Blog
of War provides an uncensored, intimate, and authentic version of life in the war zone. Dozens of voices come together in
a wartime choir that conveys better than any second-hand account possibly can what it is like to serve on the front lines.”
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