{"id":2945,"date":"2009-11-11T21:33:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:55:17","slug":"generation-kill-kicks-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=2945","title":{"rendered":"Generation Kill kicks ass!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent some time reading more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/generationkill\/\">Generation Kill<\/a> this evening, and I must say I dig it even more (is that possible??). I was not aware of the fact that the story is based on real life experiences, and also real life characters. The mini serie is based on the book of Evan Wright, the Rolling Stone reporter in Sgt. Brad &#8216;Iceman&#8217; Colbert&#8217;s hummer. I like Generation Kill because it is the real stuff, no love story involved or such stuff, just &#8220;every day life&#8221; as normal as it could be for them invading Iraq. Find out more on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Generation_Kill_%28TV_series%29\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try doing a search for the names of the characters, and you will find information about each one of them&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Next year HBO will release a new mini-serie about the WW2, &#8220;The Pacific&#8221;. Might not be as good as Generation Kill, but the filming looks impressing, a must see&#8230;<\/p>\n[video:youtube:e99B80crU3E]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent some time reading more about Generation Kill this evening, and I must say I dig it even more (is that possible??). I was not aware of the fact that the story is based on real life experiences, and also real life characters. The mini serie is based on the book of Evan Wright, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14656,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/14656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}