Summary Of House To House By SSG David Bellavia

The book House to House by SSG David Bellavia is a great read for anyone looking for a modern book describing the details of urban combat in the current War on Terror. It is a memoir of David Bellavia’s time as a soldier in Iraq but mainly his experiences at the Second Battle of Fallujah in November 2004, which was arguably the bloodiest battle of the War in Iraq. This was the turning point of the war when insurgents were causing most of the fatalities, and the Bush administration was under fire for the losing war. There was turnover in the upper levels of the military and government, unrest in the new Iraqi government and an emergence of a new disciplined and angry type of Muslim extremists who fought a new type of battle. Our newest threat,
He tells a story in the beginning of the book of his life before he joined the Army. Bellavia said he was a prudent and skittish young man at home, proving it with a story of a home invasion where he stayed in the basement staring at a shotgun he did not know how to use while the intruders took what they wanted and left. In part, he describes how his father was the main reason he joined the army “…I have to confess it was the look on my dad’s face that day. That look shamed me, and the humiliation drove me to join the army in search of the heart and spirit I so deeply lacked” (Bellavia 46). But what kept me reading was his constant review of his conscious, his Christianity and where his relationship with God was. He whole-heartedly believes in his mission and follows through with his orders but reflects what facing death every day has done to him mentally and spiritually. He discusses the joy in his enemies suffering but with a realization of what he thinks this means about himself, but still with zero regret. He continued to be a proud server of the USA and to do that he had to silence a piece of his