Every time I get a bad review, I die inside a little bit.
People don't like the book. Some obsessive finds a typo, man I hate that!
So one gets the feeling of an ice pick being sunk into one's heart and moves on.
But for whatever reason I find the Australia one-stars for ANZACs to be particularly galling.
Aussie readers are reporting good things on Goodreads, so I take solace in that.
Still those two Aussie vets really let me have it.
Really...or Really?
I got the RAAF ranks wrong? I screwed on the PM being a teetotaler? Ok, those are a little more than nit-picks. A little more. Heck, I got the location of Faslane wrong once, it seemed weird at the time, a major sub base being on the North Sea...I invented the rank of ensign for the Royal Navy...whoops. Of course those Aussie guys are telling me the RAAF F-18 couldn't fire HARMs.
I think next week I'll do a tally on tiny details I screwed up.
Well you don't know what you don't know.
A few years ago I wrote a piece on the South African Army and the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. I found an alum association that was willing to give me some pics. Understandably they wanted to review the piece first. Their own government has screwed them ever since.
While the South African vets pointed out a few mistakes they said they were genuinely glad someone in America was writing a nice article about them and their epic fight against communism.
Which was nice.
How about, 'Wow, while not perfect, this Yank remembered us ANZACs in World War Three!'
Jerks.
[Dumb Yank-Ed]
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