Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
The three women Birdy meets who were then captured are real people: Jessica Lynch, Lori Ann Piestew, and Shoshana Johnson. Jessica and Shoshana were rescued, while Lori died from injuries as a prisoner of war. (Source)
The author, Walter Dean Myers, wrote more than a hundred books. He could've filled a home library with only books he wrote. (Source)
More than 6,600 Americans died in Iraq and Afghanistan. And there were many more that were injured. (Source)
Birdy left combat without being completely anti- or pro- the Iraq War, but some soldiers left with stronger feelings against it. A national organization called Iraq Veterans Against the War formed just one year after the Iraq War began. (Source)