We choose to express our dark humor and let our terrible jokes fly like eagles, all in an effort to get combat vets to laugh, get together, and stop fucking killing themselves.
We are combat veterans who ch oose to tell our stories in the same manner that we’d tell them in a living room with our best bros. Irreverent Warriors are guys who have used humor to get through the darkest side of humanity. More from Irreverent Warriors’ Facebook page: “In addition to the laughter is the opportunity for guys to open up to each other,” Maher said. They hope the effort will catch on and people will hold more events like this.
The two started Irreverent Warriors to put on events like the walk, with the message that brotherhood will never die. Maher broke at least 20 bones, and Loya suffered traumatic brain injury when he was blasted by a 30-pound improvised explosive device and came to at the bottom of a river. Ryan Loya his best friend since the two bonded in Afghanistan. Danny Maher (also known by his pen name Donny O’Malley), has been calling Marine Sgt. The men who organized the walk are the Irreverent Warriors.
