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Recounts the personal story of how two Naval academy roommates–US Marine Travis Manion and US Navy SEAL Brendan Looney–defined a generation’s sacrifice after 9/11, and how their loved ones carry on in their memory

Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, the President of the United States stood in Arlington NationalCemetery. In his Memorial Day address, he extolled the courage andsacrifice of the two young men buried side by side in the graves beforehim: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen USNavy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq andone in Afghanistan, these two best friends and former roommates were nowburied together–“brothers forever.”

Award-winning journalistTom Sileo and Travis’s father, former Marine colonel Tom Manion, cometogether to tell thisd intimate story, from Travis’s incredible heroism on the streets of Fallujah to Brendan’s anguished Navy SEAL training in the wake of his friend’s death and his own heroism in the mountains ofAfghanistan. Brothers Forever is a remarkable story of friendship, family, and war.