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Title: Yesterdays Are Forever : A Rite of Passage Through the Marine Corps and Vietnam War by Richard D. Jackson ISBN: 188370751X Publisher: Protea Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: Up Close Viet Nam Memoirs
Comment: First of all, let me confess that my remarks are not entirely objective since I was a member of Captain Jackson's Mike Company during his command. His recollections are far clearer than mine, perhaps due to our very different stations. You see, Captain Jackson was a 30 year-old Marine officer with six years experience, while I was a 19 year-old PFC and LCpl, operating as a grunt rifleman and radioman in "Mike-2-Charlie."
I was fascinated by Jackson's account the circumstances leading up to his entry in the Marines, and his very remarkable career as an officer prior to his tour in Viet Nam. Captain Jackson provides the reader with a clear picture of life in Mike Company in those days, although from a quite different perspective than I had.
One difference of opinion I have with the author is his assessment of my Platoon Commander. Captain Jackson describes an incident in which the Lieutenant beats a Marine on the back with a steel bar, but dismisses the event as the officer merely trying to admonish the young man without really inflicting any pain. Well, I witnessed more than one incident where this officer either kicked or beat men in the head with a steel helmet in his hand. The opinion of the men under his command was that this "warrior" was a vicious and arrogant prima donna.
While the book will be quite interesting to students of the war in Viet Nam or those who were participants, the very poor (or nonexistent) editing done by the book's publisher is quite distracting. Virtually every page contains errors in punctuation, spelling, word usage, etc. My background as a Mike Company Marine serving under Captain Jackson allowed me to easily ignore these small issues. All in all, a very interesting and readable book.
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Title: 13 Cent Killers: The 5th Marine Snipers in Vietnam by John J. Culbertson ISBN: 0345459148 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: No Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam: An Oral History by Otto J. Lehrack ISBN: 0700605347 Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence ISBN: 1891620312 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: West Dickens Avenue: A Marine at Khe Sanh by John Corbett ISBN: 0891417850 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Marine Rifleman: Forty-Three Years in the Corps by Wesley L. Fox ISBN: 1574884255 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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