Once a Marine: Collected Stories by Enlisted Marine Corps Vietnam Veterans - Their Lives 35 Years LaterAuthor House, 2005-03-23 - 308 psl. The former enlisted Marines whose stories you will read in this book have a common thread. The common thread is that they became one of the few, the proud, the Marines. They joined and entered the Vietnam war when their country called. They fought and returned home to adjust to normal lives by themselves. These are the life stories, told in their own words, of how Marine Corps vets came home, built families, businesses and are living the American dream today. Many still live their lives today with the same traditions and values taught to them by the Marine Corps and have adjusted after the traumatic experience of a war. Marine Corps values are easy to state as: Honor, Courage, and Commitment. The Marine Corps defines these values in the following way: Honor as demonstrating integrity in all one does, and accepting responsibility and accountability for ones actions. Courage as doing the right thing, in the right way, and for the right reasons. Commitment as devotion to the Corps and ones fellow Marines. All Marines, former and active duty, live and fight under this same creed. Read about these men who left the Corps and the war behind and used this experience as a stepping stone to success and happiness. |
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... combat operations. There were many more who sustained non-fatal injuries, approximately half the battalion, in the same time frame. Many more Marines and corpsmen would die and have their names added to this list in the months that ...
... combat, fight back? Why do Marines usually achieve their objective rather than be reasonable, i.e., pull back, regroup, wait for further instructions or for the situation to improve? Are you impressed that Marines are animated and ...
... combat, relationships, and from life itself. Each writer makes his own reflections. We wanted to emphasize honesty as the tenet to be put before our readers, so each contributor we chose has told his story his own way. Our sense of ...
... combat . Training prepares one for responsibility , leadership , and effective participation in a group setting . We need to know things that made a difference to our writers , so certainly we want to know their experiences in one of ...
... combat situations with himself staged as central character, then exited the field at his first opportunity. More noteworthy, he gave testimony before Congress upon his return. He visited with representatives of the enemy in Paris. He ...
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Arthur W McLaughlin Jr | 31 |
James Thiel | 55 |
Manning | 73 |
John Stoddard | 91 |
Doc Raymond W Knispel | 121 |
Thomas G Casey | 145 |
Doc Dev Slingluff | 167 |
Joseph Kee | 189 |
McClintick Sr | 203 |
Lessons Taught Commentary | 227 |
And Lessons LearnedConclusions | 241 |
DeShazo MD | 263 |