Any time you have someone's first-hand account of the sheer terror that ISIS can provoke... that's powerful.
I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.
There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-
Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.
I don't blame anyone for not believing me, if I had not experienced it myself, I would not have believed it myself.
Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake. [Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.
You gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it.
