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Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, the President of the United States stood in Arlington National Cemetery. In his Memorial Day address, he extolled the courage and sacrifice of the two young men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, these two best friends and former roommates were now buried together - "brothers forever."Award-winning journalist Tom Sileo and Travis's father, former Marine colonel Tom Manion, tell the intimate and personal story of how these Naval Academy roommates defined a generation's sacrifice after 9/11, and how Travis and Brendan's loved ones overcame heartbreak to carry on in their memory.
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Tom Sileo is co-author of THREE WISE MEN (St. Martin's Press, 2021) , 8 SECONDS OF COURAGE (Simon & Schuster, 2017) , FIRE IN MY EYES (Hachette, 2016) and BROTHERS FOREVER (Hachette, 2014) . He is represented by the WordServe Literary agency. Tom is a contributing senior editor of The Stream and recipient of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Oliver P. Smith Award for distinguished reporting. Follow Tom on Twitter @TSileo.
