My Alternative Addition: The War On Terror

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Application-My Alternative Addition to text Chris Kyle indeed lived through some of the harshest action on the War on Terror. He saw many of his comrades fall in the line of duty because of the position he was in. He was a God loving patriot who would give anything for the guy next to him in battle and his country. After this book was written a tragedy happened. On February, 2, 2013, Chris Kyle was murdered in cold blood. While trying to help a veteran named Eddy Ray with PTSD. They had gone to a shooting range Eddy Ray turned killing Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield before running the scene. Ray has recently been convicted of murder for both of them men. To think he survived four tours in iraq, just to come home and be killed. Its

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