Marine Sergeant (Retired) Rodolfo "
Rudy" Reyes -- USMC 1st Recon Iraq war veteran, indisputable eye candy, soon-to-expire-cover pic from the 2007 "American Heroes" calendar from FreedomIsNotFree.org, frequent search term within this site -- we salute you. It's a belated Veterans' day thing and/or an early birthday present to myself! Mostly everyone who comes to this site, comes through a link or through a fairly heavy, intellectual, serious search about combat trauma, PTSD, signs and symptoms, treatment protocols that wo
rk, etc., etc. But every once in a while, and not that infrequently, actually, somebody comes who is just looking for pics of Rudy Reyes. I feel ya. I can completely understand why. So in the spirit of honoring yet another veteran who 
serves the cause, in his own special way, here's not just pics but actual VIDEO about Rudy Reyes, from the Freedom is Not Free website, and check this out -- there's actually some very good points being made about veterans aftercare and its affordability, or lack thereof. Go, Rudy!
(If you've read Evan Wright's Generation Kill, or Nate Fick's One Bullet Away, both about the platoon in the 1st Reconnaissance battalion in which Fick and Reyes served in Iraq, you've been introduced to Rudy Reyes already. Here's a pic of Nate Fick and Rudy Reyes from their tour in Iraq with 1st Recon that was on the web a while back, probably from Wright's book. And here's the cover pic of Rudy Reyes from the current philanthropic calendar for Freedom is Not Free, before it got airbrushed a bit more. Swoon, faint, thud...).
Editor's Note: Apparently Generation Kill is going to become a 7-part miniseries on HBO, and Rudy Reyes is tapped to play himself. Hre's the link to the news on HBO (see item from June 1, 2007).
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Update: I recently got a chance to communicate with former First Recon Marine and current international heartthrob, Rudy Reyes, one of the stars of the HBO miniseries about Generation Kill (linked here), and learn what his future plans are -- and they're exciting. (Searches for Rudy Reyes skyrocketed this week, coming from places as disparate as Jack in the Box and the U.S. Senate, and from Alaska to Argentina. I joke that everyone but the Pope searched for Rudy Reyes this week, and perhaps even him. Reyes just got an agent -- William Morris -- (he's gonna need one!) -- there are some stupendous shots of him on the Web -- and there are plans for him to release an undoubtedly hotly-anticipated workout video and more, based on the concept of "Hero Living." Can't wait to see what that's all about. (My semi-educated guess is his eventual website will be, www.RudyReyes.com, but currently there isn't any content posted there -- so check back periodically to see when it is.)
