- He has a passion for preserving oral histories of combat veterans.
- Has been studying World War II and modern was since childhood.
- He fought with a marine rifle platoon (Lima Company 3/1) during the battle of Fallujah.
- He survived several ambushes. And carried a mortally wounded Marine out of a fire fight.
- He's written several books on military history. Including "Dog Company: The boys of Pointe du Hoc", "Give Me Tomorrow", "They Dared Return", "The Brenner Assignment", "We Were One", and others.
- During the Iraq war. O'Donnell was embedded with military units as the only civilian combat historian.
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