![]() But the message you've sent to your readers is painful all the same for me to receive. I may no longer be in the fight, having served my term and studying now at the University of Chicago. Your review of " No End in Sight" deeply wounded me, as one who has come to place tremendous value upon your opinion. The soldiers fighting there fight in the name of universal justice that many of the liberal elite take for granted. Contrary to what you may believe, many serve the American cause because they want to. I know a lot of men and women who were similarly proud to fight what they felt was a just war against a common enemy to all of humanity, a regime of mass destruction. I saw more of the destructive impact of war on the lives of the Iraqi people and those of the men around me than you will ever know. I served for one year and a half in Iraq. I am also a proud American who enlisted voluntarily in the United States Marines Corps. I will forever be indebted to you for having changed my life in this regard. You were responsible for directing me toward the works of Bresson, Bunuel, Bergman, Tarkovsky and Herzog (particularly Bresson) and thus inspiring my love for the movies. I have long been a dedicated reader of your reviews. (All were paid for at exorbitant rates, thank goodness.)" And Harlan Ellison writes me: "I've no idea what my pal Neil Gaiman claims for a total of unproduced screenplays but (including films intended for TV, as well as theatrical, but not series) I had the list printed out, and at the moment, it stands at a terrifying 27 screenplays written and unproduced.
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