{"id":2861,"date":"2012-09-02T20:23:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:39:24","slug":"ny-times-fascinating-review-of-the-new-seal-book-no-easy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"NY Times fascinating review of the new SEAL book, &#8220;No Easy Day&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/span> Another NYT column aboutthe ebook No Easy Op, which discusses this book and it&#39;s author.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The reviewer is long-time NYT critic and reviewer, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Janet_Maslin\" target=\"_self\">Janet Maslin<\/a> (Who is married to Benjamin Cheever, sone of the very acclaimed fction writer and Ossining resident, the late <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Cheever\" target=\"_self\">John Cheever<\/a>). I didn&#39;t know this, but Maslin lives in Pleasantville, and &quot;serves as president of the board of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacob_Burns_Film_Center\" title=\"Jacob Burns Film Center\">Jacob Burns Film Center<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a very interesting review of what is evidently a more then interesting book. the author, was on the raid that killed bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/03\/books\/no-easy-day-by-mark-owen-with-kevin-maurer.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_self\">A SEAL\u2019s Own Story, Bin Laden and All<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\nThe Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, learned from<br \/>\nABC News that they had \u201cgazelle legs, no waist, and a huge upper body<br \/>\nconfiguration,\u201d not to mention calloused hands and gigantic egos. They<br \/>\nlearned from other American news sources that they had taken part in a<br \/>\n45-minute firefight and that an armed bin Laden, once cornered, had<br \/>\ntried to defend himself in his final moments, staring straight at the<br \/>\nfighters who would shoot him. Their raid was being turned into a bad<br \/>\naction movie.        <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\nThese distortions seemed funny at first. But \u201cMark Owen\u201d (the pseudonym<br \/>\nof one gutsy, transgressive member of the SEALs, who served 13<br \/>\nconsecutive combat deployments) began to want to set the record<br \/>\nstraight. He hoped to deliver firsthand a visceral and often surprising<br \/>\nversion of the bin Laden raid and other SEAL stories. The emphasis of<br \/>\nhis \u201cNo Easy Day,\u201d written with Kevin Maurer, is not on spilling<br \/>\nsecrets. It is on explaining a SEAL\u2019s rigorous mind-set and showing how<br \/>\nthat toughness is created.        <\/p>\n<p>Maslin goes on to give the book an excellent review; I may have to get the kindle edition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Another NYT column aboutthe ebook No Easy Op, which discusses this book and it&#39;s author. The reviewer is long-time NYT critic and reviewer, Janet Maslin (Who is married to Benjamin Cheever, sone of the very acclaimed fction writer and Ossining resident, the late John Cheever). I didn&#39;t know this, but Maslin lives in Pleasantville, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8568,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions\/8568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}