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Title: Pathfinder: First In, Last Out by Richard R. Burns ISBN: 0804116024 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Story
Comment: I was a friend of Richie Burns so I guess I'm a little biased when it comes to reviewing his book. However, that being said let me add that PATHFINDER is a remarkable first-person war story in that Richie not only told it like it was but made it a very moving, personal account as well. There's no ego here, no 'I was better than yoiu were' war story, just a good look at the Vietnam War.
As you read you're there with him, getting an inside look to the Pathfinder operations he took part in the war and better yet, a closer look at someone you would have been proud to call a friend as well.
When he died of cancer he left behind grieving family and friends and, this book that reminds us that a good man served his country with pride and integrity in the war and long afterwards as a career Special Forces soldier.
What the book doesn't tell you is that he also served as a veteran's counselor and that he had helped so many others try to make some sense of their own war stories.
Buy this book and hold on to it. People like Richie don't come around in life that often and the book is a reminder of what we all lost with his passing.
Rating: 5
Summary: A GREAT MAN & AN OUTSTANDING BOOK!
Comment: The way the author writes the story is the way he lived... Richie Burns, in his book, we were all young soldiers doing our jobs and he meant all of us that served with honor and dignity in that Vietnam War. PATHFINDERS is about setting the example. Leading soldiers in combat by courage not by rank and a deep faith in the man next to you on the "team." This book is remarkable and Richie downplays what he truly did do for all of his years on this earth. God Bless you, Richie. I know this book will do well. You wrote it with passion, honesty and integrity just as you lived your life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Burns paints a clear picture
Comment: I was not in Vietnam, I wasn't even in the service, but the recent movie WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE resparked my interest again in a war so few of us really understood. I didn't burn my draft card, protest, or march. I have read 20 books in the past 3 months about Vietnam, 1 was 9 lbs., 3 were the country as in the present. Richie put me right next to him on every page and in every situation. Where is that dog? The good and bad side of not taking gun to a chopper crash site. The Recondo school, I felt the cool breeze coming out of that rock cave as Burns looked inside. This book is writen as a young man would write, not like a middle aged mature man who had lived a good life after returning to the world. I am not sure how Burns does that, but it makes for great reading. I am truly sorry to hear that cancer has cut Richard R. Burns life short. I will make a monetary donation in his memory. Cancer has claimed many of my family members. The History Channel ran a special on Recon Teams and there sat Richie Burns talking about his weeks at Recondo.
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Title: Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam: We were Soldiers Once...And Young by Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway ISBN: 0679411585 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Diary of an Airborne Ranger: A Lrrp's Year in the Combat Zone by Frank Johnson ISBN: 0804118809 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: War Paint by Bill Goshen ISBN: 0345444914 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Not Going Home Alone: A Marine's Story by James J. Kirschke ISBN: 0345440935 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Phantom Warriors: Lrrps, Lrps, and Rangers in Vietnam by Gary A. Linderer ISBN: 0804119988 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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