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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... knew you as brothers, and we remember. Pfc. Ronald Paul Almaraz Sylmar, CA Pfc. Louis Allen Ambrose Perth Amboy, NJ Sgt. Charles Eugene Anderson Spokane, WA LCpl. Dennis Richard Andrew Easton, PA Cpl. Anibal Felipe Aviles, Jr. Mayaquez ...
... knew somewhere there was a better place for me, and I was determined to find it. Things should have been different at that time in my life. My first memories are of being at Grandma Baker's house. My maternal grandparents were wonderful ...
... knew there was a war warming up in Southeast Asia, but war did not sound that bad to me. After all, my grandfather and uncles had all done their turn at war, and my dad had been on two merchant ships that were sunk by the Germans and ...
... knew it. It was just like close order drill. You keep at it until it becomes second nature. I made myself try difficult cases. I tried cases for and against insurance companies. I tried domestic relations cases and large construction ...
... knew what not to do as a dad. At some level I was always measuring others against my Marine Corp buddies and the others always came up short by comparison. I was not like the slobbering rag-tag vets who were forever lamenting their ...
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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 |