Warrior Legacy FoundationAbout David Bellavia
Author of the critically acclaimed war memoir House to House: An Epic Memoir of War, about door-to-door close combat in Iraq, David Bellavia is a former Army Infantry Staff Sergeant who served in the First Infantry Division (Task Force 2-2) for over six years.
He has also been nominated for both the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor for his actions in a fierce urban hand-to-hand during the battle of Fallujah. He is the recipient of both the Silver and Bronze Stars for valor, and the Conspicuous Service Cross (New York State’s highest award for combat valor).
As a result of his unit’s astounding performance in the massive November 2004 Fallujah assault, Bellavia and his platoon became the subjects of the Time magazine cover story, “Into the Hot Zone,” and were awarded the prestigious Presidential Unit Citation.
Bellavia has returned to the Iraqi battlefield many times as an embedded reporter. His reports and op-eds have appeared in The Weekly Standard, National Review, Washington Post, Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Wall Street Journal.
A frequent military analyst on news networks: Al Jazeera, BBC News, FOX and the CNN networks, Bellavia was invited to attend the President’s State of the Union address as an honored guest of the First Lady in 2006. He was also the first inductee of New York State’s Veterans Hall of Fame in Albany, New York.
He co-founded the non-partisan veteran’s advocacy group, Vets For Freedom in 2005. The group has grown to become the largest organization of Afghanistan and Iraqi combat veterans in America today.
Bellavia recently co-founded The Warrior Legacy Foundation (WLF). This Veteran’s organization exists to change the American cultures’ perception of The Warrior class by defending the dignity and honor all who have served, have been seriously wounded and those who sacrificed their lives to preserve our great nation and defend our globally coveted way of life.
David is 34 years old and lives in upstate New York with his beautiful family.
Tengo su mismo apellido.. me preguntaba de donde viene su familia… la mia de Sicilia (italia)…. gracias por su atencion.
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February 12th, 2010 at 22:12
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I have her same surname.. asked me of where comes its family… the mia of Sicily (italia)…. thanks by her atencion.
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March 11th, 2010 at 13:15
Proper translation. I have the same surname as you. I was wondering where your family comes from. Thanks for your help/response/attention.
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David Bellavia
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March 11th, 2010 at 13:29
Thank you.
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Yeah, what he said.
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I just finished your book and I absolutely loved it. I was moved to tears at several points throughout. My little bro is over in Astan right now with the 82nd and we could not be more proud of him or those he serves with. Thank you for your service. I do not think I am alone in saying that I suspect you have many more great things yet to accomplish. Your plain spokenness is exactly what is needed in DC these days. Get to it. HOOAH!
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It is a great book. My son is in 2nd of 2nd, 3 BCT 1 ID. And as the father of an infantryman, it gives me information my son would never tell me. After I read it, I gave it to my son, and it is making the rounds at Knox. As to your current efforts, ” Follow Me!” The infantry(and David)leads the way. Now if you can just get our elected officials to follow.
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I just read your book a couple days ago. Disturbing and inspireing. I was a submariner during the Reagun presidency. My service was merely long hours and hard work. The things you ground pounders went/go through I can do no more then imagein.
Thanks for your and all the troops efforts and sacrifice.
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David, we met the day before the above picture was taken. I am not a veteran but I support you all to infinity and back. That cold, drizzly morning in April I looked out at the sea of veterans I made a vow to myself to never forget how lucky I am to be an American and how vital it is for me to fight for this right. I join the WLF as a citizen who cares and will continue to support ways we can honor and encourage our veterans and fellow Americans to do the same. Thanks for fighting for us in Iraq and here at home!
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Hello from France,
I’ve just finished your book (edited in french language by François de St-Exupéry of EDITIONS NIMROD) = hallucinating ! It was worse than Stalingrad !
I want you to know (to learn ?) that many Frenchies (in the military or not) support your troops in Iraq and in Afghanistan (of course including our troops in this last shithole) and that not all of the French people are running cowards, as depicted much too often in the USA.
Personally, I was for the second gulf war (Chirac gros con !).
Did you have thinking to write a novel like other veterans ? I’m already interesting to read it.
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Hello from France,
I’ve just finished your book (edited in french language by François de St-Exupéry of EDITIONS NIMROD) = hallucinating ! It was worse than Stalingrad !
I want you to know (to learn ?) that many Frenchies (in the military or not) support your troops in Iraq and in Afghanistan (of course including our troops in this last shithole) and that not all of the French people are running cowards, as depicted much too often in the USA.
Personally, I was for the second gulf war (Chirac gros con !).
Did you have thinking to write a novel like other veterans ? I’m already interested to read it.
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Loved your book. Just finished reading it a second time. It’s earned a spot near the toilet so I’ll no doubt read it again. As soon as I saw the title of the opening chapter, I knew it’d be a good read. I was at FOB Normandy from Oct. ‘06 to Nov. ‘07 (aside from a three month stint my troop did down near Baqubah). How would I go about joining Vets for Freedom? It doesn’t cost anything does it? I’m broke and can’t find work, and so, since like you said the bleacher seats suck balls, I re-enlisted. Thankfully I’m single with no kids so it wasn’t hard for me. So can, or should an active duty dude be in a group like that?
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