Talk:The War: Ripcord/@comment-24476373-20130719193600

Amazing work, Lance. After finally reading the whole thing, it seems that this story has done a very good job of portraying what happened back then, such as the Anti-War demonstrations, racial tensions, both the lighter and darker moments of the soldiers' lives during their deployment, all making for a wonderful story. It's very nice to see a break from the typical fanfics here that tend to stray away from the reality of the war and focus on special ops, bearded Russian bad guy plots instead of regular soldiers in a real war.

Also, you definitely should not give up writing this stuff. As people (including myself) have suggested below, one done in the 1983 Grenada conflict or the 1989 Panama Invasion would also be cool. However, though, both of those were fairly short IIRC, and I don't know how well you'd be able to write a lengthy story about it simply because of the limited time which the war took place in. Also, Soviet-Afghan war would be cool too, but the US had no official involvement in it, so you'd have to risk going down the MyOpsAreBlackerThanYours route, unless you wrote it from the POV of the Mujis or Reds.