Researching Michael Yon
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 9 people with the Yon surname? In that year Yon was ranked number 3570 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Michael Yon on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Michael Yon and the Yon Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 87 people with the Yon surname in the UK? Yon is now ranked number 3960 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Yon surname in the USA? Yon is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Michael Yon
Michael Yon
Michael Yon (born 1964) is an American writer and photographer. He served in the Special Forces in the early-1980s, and he became a writer in the mid-1990s. He focused on military writing after the invasion of Iraq. Yon has been embedded on numerous occasions with American and British troops in Iraq, most prominently a deployment with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment (Deuce Four) of the 25th Infantry Division in Mosul, Iraq that ended in September 2005.
Yon has had vocal feuds with the United States military hierarchy, and the nature of his reports is also controversial. However, Yon at one time enjoyed "rock star" status among individual soldiers, according to Brian Williams of NBC. Yon's alternative media reporting has been mentioned by numerous mainstream media agencies, and he has won accolades from the 2005, 2007, and 2008 Weblog Awards. In 2008, The New York Times reported that he has spent more time embedded with combat units than any other journalist in Iraq. He shifted the focus of his blogging from Iraq to Afghanistan in August 2008. His work is supported primarily by donations from readers.
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