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In April, 2003, an AP photographer captured a striking image seen around the world of Gunny Sergeant Nick Popaditch smoking a victory cigar in his tank, the haunting statue of Saddam Hussein hovering in the background. Though immortalized in that moment as The Cigar Marine, Popaditchs fighting was far from over.
The following year, he fought heroically in the battle for Fallujah and suffered grievous head wounds that left him legally blind and partially deaf. But he faced the toughest fight of his life when he returned home: the battle to remain the man and Marine he was.
At first, Nick fights to get back to where he was in Iraq-in the cupola of an M1A1 main battle tank, leading Marines in combat. As the seriousness and permanence of his disabilities become more evident, Nick fights to remain in the Corps in any capacity and help his brothers in arms. Then, following a medical retirement, he battles for rightful recognition and compensation for his disabilities. Throughout his harrowing ordeal, Nick fights to maintain his honor and loyalty, waging all these battles the same waythe Marine waybecause anything less would be a betrayal of all he holds dear.
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If you want an honest answer, ask a Marine. If you want an honest view of a war, ask a Marine gunnery sergeant. Nick Popaditchs transcendent memoir of military service and its personal consequences should be read by every one of our nations political leadersto help them understand the incomparable quality of those who fight on the front lines. Read this inspiring story, recommend it to friendsand send a copy to your member of Congress!
Ralph Peters (Lt. Col., ret.), New York Post columnist and author of Looking For Trouble and Wars Of Blood and Faith
America has always been blessed by wonderful, patriotic, and often anonymous men and women who have sacrificed so much in defense of liberty and freedom. Once a Marine , Gunny Sergeant Nick Popaditchs heart-wrenching and inspiring memoir, puts a name and a face on this sacrifice. Every American should read this book to remind them of what these brave warriors of freedom endure on our behalf.
Congressman Bob Filner, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs
Gunny Popaditchs story is as inspiring as it is dramatic. This wounded warrior suffered grievous injuries an RPG to the head! but refused to give up on life, even when his wounds forced him out of the Corps. Once a Marine is a must read story of one of todays real heroes.
Jerry D. Morelock, PhD, Colonel, U. S. Army (Ret.), Editor in Chief, Armchair General magazine
Author Gunny Sergeant Nick Popaditch, a Silver Star recipient and the subject of the world-famous AP photo, has penned what must surely be classed as among the best personal memoirs of any combat soldier in recent memory. Once a Marine is an in-your-face blast of raw emotion and realism that will strike a raw nerve and keep you up at night. This autobiography of combat, courage, and recovery should be required reading for every American, young and old, who yearns to grasp the true cost of freedom.
Caspar Weinberger Jr., Military and Current Affairs Columnist
A riveting and inspirational story of the consummate professional warrior. It is impossible to read Once a Marine without being proud of our military and grateful that our Nation produces men like Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch.
Michael F. Nugent, Major, US Army (Ret.), co-author of One Continuous Fight: The Retreat From Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lees Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863
Gunny Popaditchs story makes me incredibly proud to have worn the same uniform. Without intending to, Once a Marine articulates life in the modern Marine Corps more clearly than anything Ive read. No blindly loyal fanatic, Popaditch candidly acknowledges the bullshit, yet artfully captures the inimitable spirit of camaraderie and commitment that makes the Marine Corps unique. Extraordinarily motivating and compellingly honest book, it made me pine for my own long-finished Marine Corps career.
Jay A. Stout, Lt.Col. USMC (Ret.), author of Hornets Over Kuwait
Gunny Pop Popaditchs courageous memoir of his life in and out of the Marine Corps is intelligently written and imbued with a brazen honesty rarely found elsewhere. His personal courageand that of his wife, Aprilgives the term home of the brave an entirely new meaning.
Sgt. Michael Volkin, author of The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook: Tips, Tricks, and Tactics for Surviving Boot Camp
2008 by Weider History Group, Inc.
Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commanders Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery
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Gunny Sergeant Nick Popaditch with wife April enjoying a night out prior to his deployment in 2004 (Operation Iraqi Freedom 2). We both knew I was going, but only I knew I had volunteered to go back.
Popaditch Family
The worth and value of a man is in his heart and his will; there lies his real honor. Valor is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own. He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he has fallen, he fights on his knees. He who relaxes none of his assurance, no matter how great the danger of imminent death; who, giving up his soul, still looks firmly and scornfully at his enemyhe is beaten not by us, but by fortune; he is killed, not conquered.
Michel de Montaigne
Morale is often defined as an emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness, confidence, zeal, etc., especially in the face of opposition and hardship, i.e., the morale of the troops . In his new book Once a Marine , Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch, USMC, or simply Pop as he is known, through his actions advances a new definition of morale, and perhaps one more meaningful: Morale as the utter absence of self-pity . This book, and the extended definition of morale, comes amid todays popular cultural movement in our country that not only seems indifferent to, if not ignorant of, stoicism, but goes so far as to celebrate victimhood and the elevation of self-promoting histrionics to nothing short of a cottage industry.
Popaditch has written a must-read work for anyone who is a warrior, leads warriors, cares for wounded warriors, loves a warrior, or is interested in our warriors. Once a Marine provides spectacular insight into the mind and spirit of a Marine struck down in battle and who, in that instant, is taken from his men. He endures life-threatening and life-altering woundsinjuries so severe and so permanent that he loses not only his vocation as a Marine tanker, but threatens to lose his identity as a Gunny, a Marine, a father, and a husband.
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