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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... months while participating in seven major 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 ...
... months. In fairness to him, his drinking usually tracked his bouts with rheumatoid arthritis. His preferred treatment for swollen and painful joints was a cocktail of Schnapps and Darvon followed with a beer chaser. As I came through ...
... months or even years at a time. If he was at home for any extended period, it was because he was suffering from a reoccurring bout with rheumatoid arthritis and unable to work. I always dreaded to learn that dad was coming home and ...
... in Danang to take us to the battalion compound. We were told that we might take some sniper fire, but it was usually not sustained or accurate. This is not the place to recount my thirteen months 6 Charles Latting and Claude DeShazo, MD.
... months in Vietnam. I'm fortunate to have survived. The statistics are that the casualty rate for line company Marines was a hundred percent. Some Marines had a much harder tour of duty than I, and God knows many paid a heavy price for ...
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Arthur W McLaughlin Jr | 31 |
James Thiel | 55 |
Manning | 73 |
John Stoddard | 91 |
Wadlow 101 Doc Raymond W Knispel 121 Thomas G Casey | 145 |
Doc Dev Slingluff | 167 |
Joseph Kee | 189 |
McClintick Sr | 203 |
REUNION Pat Murphy 215 Lessons Taught Commentary | 227 |
And Lessons LearnedConclusions 241 Appendix | 249 |
DeShazo MD | 263 |