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The author describes his memoir: ""It's based on wartime letters. Upon arriving at the United States Marine Corps Boot Camp one of the first things my drill instructors told me to do was to write at least two letters home a week. I did what my they told me. My father, a World War II combat veteran, kept my letters, all 146 of them (and the 250 images I sent home). I continued to write all through my combat tour in Vietnam and my hospital stay in Japan recovering from wounds. I have selected and edited the most meaningful correspondence and added a narrative thread so I could tell the full story of my military experience as a high school kid from rural Ohio transformed into an untested warrior. The letters describe my further transformation into a war fighting Marine grunt in combat and finally will take you through my metamorphosis into a war-altered ex-Marine but a Marine still.

Stained with the Mud of Khe Sanh: A Marine's Letters from Vietnam, 1966-1967

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The author describes his memoir: ""It's based on wartime letters. Upon arriving at the United States Marine Corps Boot Camp... Read more

    Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
    Publication Date: 30/09/2013
    ISBN13: 9780786472154, 978-0786472154
    ISBN10: 786472154

    Number of Pages: 260

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    The author describes his memoir: ""It's based on wartime letters. Upon arriving at the United States Marine Corps Boot Camp one of the first things my drill instructors told me to do was to write at least two letters home a week. I did what my they told me. My father, a World War II combat veteran, kept my letters, all 146 of them (and the 250 images I sent home). I continued to write all through my combat tour in Vietnam and my hospital stay in Japan recovering from wounds. I have selected and edited the most meaningful correspondence and added a narrative thread so I could tell the full story of my military experience as a high school kid from rural Ohio transformed into an untested warrior. The letters describe my further transformation into a war fighting Marine grunt in combat and finally will take you through my metamorphosis into a war-altered ex-Marine but a Marine still.

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