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A Tribute to Matt Bracken (known on Free Republic as Travis McGee)
Gun Watch ^ | 1 May, 2013 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 04/30/2013 5:47:50 PM PDT by marktwain

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To: KoRn

I thought so too! whew


21 posted on 04/30/2013 6:11:43 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: expat1000

http://enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/


22 posted on 04/30/2013 6:11:53 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: marktwain; Travis McGee
Hear Hear!


23 posted on 04/30/2013 6:15:03 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: marktwain

Well-deserved tribute, we all thank you.

His trilogy should be required reading in high schools across this nation. Of course, we all know that won’t happen.

I’m waiting for some Patriotic Conservative with big buck$ (Glenn Beck?) to offer to produce his books into a series of movies! They just might wake America up as to what our future looks like.

Good luck, Matt, and thank you for all you’ve done for us. You too, marktwain!


24 posted on 04/30/2013 6:16:59 PM PDT by panaxanax
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To: marktwain

Nice looking mackerel.


25 posted on 04/30/2013 6:17:05 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: marktwain

I have given Matt’s books as gifts and they are very well received.


26 posted on 04/30/2013 6:17:26 PM PDT by informavoracious (We're being "punished" with Stanley Ann's baby.)
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To: panaxanax

I think all of those books would translate to film very well.

Of course like anything else it would have to be done by someone who is talented.

I think “Castigo Cay” would be a great movie.


27 posted on 04/30/2013 6:20:19 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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To: marktwain

Matt’s suggesting of a coffee can on a piece of rebar at a 100 yards is the best target advise anyone’s ever given me.


28 posted on 04/30/2013 6:25:04 PM PDT by Rebelbase (1929-1950's, 20+years for full recovery. How long this time?)
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To: marktwain; Travis McGee

Agreed. He’s the Mickey Spillane of patriotic realistic fiction but with more class.


29 posted on 04/30/2013 6:28:20 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: marktwain; Blood of Tyrants

Ah, I thought that was a link to just one book. Shoudha tried it.

Thanks.


30 posted on 04/30/2013 6:28:32 PM PDT by expat1000
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To: marktwain; Travis McGee

I’ve read Matt’s trilogy and I was hooked from the start. His character development and detail he added were as good as any Vince Flynn novel. Knowing what I do about Matt, I also saw much of himself written into the characters (come on, building your own sailing yacht from an old racer, so Bracken).

If anything, I would encourage him to keep writing, and writing, and writing..... and I’ll pick up Castigo Cay and finish that.

Free Americans... Errr.. I mean Free Republic unite. :)


31 posted on 04/30/2013 6:34:47 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: marktwain

I sent the trilogy to my county sheriff’s office; actually I purchased them from Matt and he signed ‘em. That was about 1 1/2 years ago (?). THen about 3 months ago I met the Sheriff and when I introduced myself I told him I was the one who sent Bracken’s books “Enemies F and D”. His eyes lit up as he obviously remembered the books; in fact I called the office a few weeks after I sent them and she told me they were being read enthusiastically.

People should send them to every County Sheriff in the country. If I was wealthy I’d help do that.


32 posted on 04/30/2013 6:35:35 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Rebelbase; Travis McGee
Matt’s suggesting of a coffee can on a piece of rebar at a 100 yards is the best target advise anyone’s ever given me.

Darn, I wish I read that one. I've been searching for the side of a dam to shoot. :)

33 posted on 04/30/2013 6:37:12 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: marktwain
Good post.

"..the only easy day was yesterday..."...Hell, from what I've seen...the fun never stops.
34 posted on 04/30/2013 6:38:16 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: marktwain

His books are great. Anyone who has not read them is really missing out!


35 posted on 04/30/2013 6:47:44 PM PDT by MtnClimber (I did not vote for 0bama, someone else did that!)
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To: mnehring

I’m guessing it’s the narrow side...the side buried in rock!
Durn hard to hit!!! :)


36 posted on 04/30/2013 6:59:38 PM PDT by ssschev (Pick up the can, throw out the trash.)
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To: marktwain

Hear hear!!


37 posted on 04/30/2013 7:01:32 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (CONGRESS, GROW A PAIR. IMPEACH THE USURPER!!)
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To: marktwain
Well deserved. He writes some terrific posts too.

How the military preps.

How an embassy rescue works.

Cross Border Authority.

All in regards to Benghazi.

38 posted on 04/30/2013 7:04:12 PM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: mnehring

When I got Enemies Foreign and Domestic on my kindle, I had no idea who the author was, I just liked the description of the story.

As I was reading it, I kept thinking “wow, this guy should be a Freeper”. I had a good laugh later when I was reading FR and coincidentally saw someone’s post about Matt Bracken and his novels!!


39 posted on 04/30/2013 7:04:44 PM PDT by buckeye49
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To: marktwain; Gosh I love this neighborhood; Mrs. P

Thanks for the post marktwain. Hey michigan-heads up.


40 posted on 04/30/2013 7:05:14 PM PDT by GILTN1stborn
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