"Mr. Griffin convinces you that his son was an unusual man, someone worth knowing ... It has already been pointed out, by Thomas E. Ricks of The Washington Post, that the most honest and gripping accounts of the Iraq war have come from low-ranking soldiers, not from generals. “Last Journey” joins that small shelf of serious books, thanks to a father with a native gift for the English language, one who gave his son the greatest gift a father can give: his avid and appreciative attention." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"The book that he helped his father write from the grave is a testimony to the brave brand of thinking, skeptical soldier who does his job no matter what. One of Skip's lieutenants later told the elder Griffin that regardless of the mission Skip always said, "Screw it, we gotta do it, we gotta do it." It might have been the elder Griffin's mantra while writing this book for and about his son. And the literature of war is richer for it." — Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead, Barnes & Noble Book Review

"The author sets the accounts of his son's concurrent military, intellectual and internal lives in the biography of a truly exceptional Soldier, adding his own narrative to his son's original e-mails and journal entries." — Don Kramer, Northwest Guardian

"Part memoir, part white-knuckle war reporting, part philosophical meditation, this book is a valuable addition to the growing literature on the Iraq war and the sacrificies made by military families."   — Library Journal

"Throughout the book, Griffin allows his son to be the hero and the intellectual. He offers only the essentials about his own self-funded tour of Iraq after Skip was killed....In a latrine trailer in Camp Ali Al Salem, he spots a scrawled and incorrectly phrased quote from Nietzsche on the wall of a stall. Below the misconstrued quotation is a corrected version. The editor had signed his name as Skip." — J. Ford Huffman, Navy Times