McClatchy Newspapers reporter Jonathan Landay has published a lengthy investigation challenging the accuracy of both the 2011 book THE WRONG WAR by Bing West, as well as the official account of the heroism that led to Marine Dakota Meyer recently receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor. Last month, Random House announced a deal with Meyer–the first living Marine to receive the presitigious honor in almost 40 years–and co-author West, promising his “eyewitness account of the battle.” Landway, who was present as an embedded reporter at the battle in Ganjgal, Afghanistan which was the setting of Meyer’s heroism, writes that “crucial […]
