Chris Kyle's 'The American Sniper'

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The American Sniper is one of the most emotional book I have ever read in my lifetime. It has so many up and downs through this mans life ending up with the death its grieving. Being the best sniper to ever come across america and fight for our military he is known everywhere having a book and a movie made off him. everyone knows his story. this is my opinion on it. Chris Kyle's life would go from good to bad to good to dead, and thats a short sequence of the book and its sadening. his family problems and getting them in order with all the time he did over seas killing and taking lives will affect one and it really effected him and even others. As in the story, Chris Kyle The American Sniper shot and killed a man with an RPG heading toward

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