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My book, Shoot Like A Girl, follows MJ Hegar, a girl from Austin Texas who joins the Air Force and eventually fights in the Afghanistan War. During the early parts of the autobiography, the Civil War between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance had just started. Since this book is nonfiction, all the events in the book are real and actually happened. The first Gulf War had just ended when MJ finishes college and joins the Air Force as an aircraft maintenance worker. She was stationed in Japan during the economic turmoil and recession. She was in Austin at training camp when the Twin Towers were hit. "I watched in horror as the second plane impacted with the tower on live TV. This was no accident. My stomach churned as I began to realize that we were under attack." This is how MJ recalls feeling on the morning of September 11, 2001. Currently in my book, MJ is being deployed on a search and rescue mission in Kandahar. This relates to the world because many of these happened during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Max Hammer
4/27/2017 05:00:04 am
This sounds like an interesting book. When she realizes that the US is being attacked (9/11) what does she do in response?
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Marshall
5/8/2017 04:39:21 am
Surprisingly, she doesn't do much of anything. She drives to classes like usual, despite the mass commotion and craziness that is going on around her. I think she does this because she is in such shock and doesn't really want to accept what happened, so she continues her day as usual.
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