LOAD, AIM...FIRE!

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Softcover edition by Duncan Mattusheck, published 2021. 143 pages. Illustrated. Very good condition.

On the 13th of November 1975, during Operation Savannah, Duncan Mattushek lost both his arms when his service vehicle detonated a landmine. He also suffered severe burns. His biography covers not only his time in the military but, first and foremost, how do you go on after suffering such catastrophic injuries? Now, if you're looking for an action-filled book with heroic tales of military operations, this is not the book for you. And if you therefore chose not to read it, you would be a poorer person for it. Mattushek tells his story, not by engaging in grand and bombastic wordings, but rather in understatements and in a soft-spoken manner. He is using gallows humour to get through e.g., the horrors from his time in 1 Mil Hospital During the night I could hear the screams, sobbing and moaning from the other wards and I could not even place my fingers in my ears to deafen the sound! Through his story we also get a glimpse into a changing society. How the hospital staff quickly had to adjust and learn how to deal with severely injured young men from the Border War and how it was forbidden to state that someone had been Killed in Action whilst Killed on active duty was a much more preferable expression. Included in the book are stories and statements from persons involved in the casualty evacuation of Mattushek and his comrades after the landmine explosion, something that gives even more depth and background to story. It is a deeply impressive and moving story about living with a lifelong handicap, how to adjust and find innovative ways forwards, never backing down from challenges. It's a story of travelling and settling into a new country following the love of farming. But most of all it's a declaration of love for people around him, those who never wavered in their support, to his wife Irene, and to life itself. Mattushek is not disabled, he is very able.

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