Black Hawk Down

Blood…. Terror…. Insanity. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden recalls the Battle of the Black Sea through the eyes of the American soldiers as well as the Somalia’s. The events of October 3-4, 1993 came to be known as The Battle of the Black Sea. It began as a simple abduction of one of the factional warlords in the Somalia’s lingering civil war and ended in a bloody chase …

…few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for whoever has shed his blood with me shall be my brother. And those men afraid to go will think themselves lesser men as they hear of how we fought and died together.” These words, from Shakespeare’s Henry V and was later quoted by Major General William F. Garrison, the two star commander of Task Force Ranger, in a memorial service for the 18 dead American soldiers.