The book, Ghost of War, has had multiple impacts on my life from the lessons within the book. One of the major lessons that I learn is that sometimes doing the right thing will result with some loss some how. The way that this was implied in the book is by when he left for the military, the loss that he encountered was the loss of family. Now, that loss wasn't permanent, but they didn't have to be permanent to be considered a loss. The way that I can apply that lesson to my daily life is by the loss that everyone gets with going to work. Whenever you go to work, you lose time that you could be spending with friends, hanging out with family, or just having some time to myself to relax. The right thing in my personal example is going to work and helping out my co-workers and the loss is what I just stated. Another message that I got out of this book is how it must of felt to be out there in a war at that young of an age. Ryan Smithson was only 19 years old when he was pulled out into war, and within his book he uses great details to describe what it would feel like to be out there. Now, I don't know one hundred percent, what it would feel like to be out there in a war, but throughout this book, I've gotten a good enough of an idea of what it would've felt like to be out there, risking your life, so that the people at home can live. Standing up to the enemy, even when you have a chance of dying within the process. So to sum up this message, there is no evil that you can't stand up to, no matter what you have to stand your ground. A third message that I got out of this book is that there is no sacrifice that isn't great. Now the sacrifice that Ryan made was really great because he was up to giving up family for an extended period of time and possibly sacrifice his life all for his country, all because of event that happened on September 11, 2001. I haven't made a sacrifice that great, but I have made multiple that were pretty great. So, any sacrifice that you can make will result with a reward of grace or happiness, it all depends on the circumstances. Ryan's reward was to go home to his family alive, and a reward of one off mine would be happiness.