Tom Clancy Dead

[Bodhi]

Certainly a bummer.  Excellent writer and from all appearences a genuinely good man.

[scot12b]

  Loved his books great author!

[Shifty]

Red Storm Rising is still one of my favorite books, I remember reading it the year it came out in 1986, and I still have that original Hardcover.  I reread it at least once a year still to this day.  The early "Jack Ryan" books were alright as well, right up until The Bear and the Dragon, the last book you can tell was written solely by Clancy. 

He loved his country, you can discern that much from his books, and his non fictional series on different branches of the military were excellent as well, I bought the first one Fighter Wing while on a trip to the USA, and read it the entire flight home.

Red Storm Rising is my favorite Tom Clancey book as well. I'm sad he's left us. 

[Rich46yo]

RIP  . Clancy paid homage to the American fighting man and woman in his books, and to our allies as well, and portrayed the American armed forces for what they truly are. An enormously destructive killing machine that no enemy can withstand. He emerged in the Literary world just as America was starting to recover from the Vietnam Lows when the country had stupidly belittled its armed services over a war the troops had nothing to do with starting.

Clancy, like Ronald Reagan, helped bring pride back into wearing the uniform.

[-ammo-]

RIP  . Clancy paid homage to the American fighting man and woman in his books, and to our allies as well, and portrayed the American armed forces for what they truly are. An enormously destructive killing machine that no enemy can withstand. He emerged in the Literary world just as America was starting to recover from the Vietnam Lows when the country had stupidly belittled its armed services over a war the troops had nothing to do with starting.

Clancy, like Ronald Reagan, helped bring pride back into wearing the uniform.

I think we our values intersect at least at this point.

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Ammo