Where I come from, people don't really join the military. It's the modern Americana, where layers of white-collar contentment shield fears of a higher unknown and blueblooded pipedreams. Reno may sound like a unique place -- and it is, at least the inner urban part that wavers between the rustic and the bizarre -- but decades of suburban buildup has eroded that authenticity. The military, generally, does not come into play for this youth."
-- Lt. G, Nov. 17, 2007
The month before his Iraq deployment, Matt Gallagher started a blog.
Entitled "Kaboom: A Soldier's War Blog," his postings ranged from mission details to immortality and what would be included on a war soundtrack. To protect his identity and location, he went by the pseudonym "LT G" (for lieutenant), dubbed his platoon the Gravediggers and served in a place he called "Anu al-Verona."
Gallagher, a Reno native, announced June 27 that he had been ordered to stop posting to "Kaboom" because of his May 28 post: "The Only Difference Between Suicide and Martyrdom is Press Coverage."
