We'll All Die As Marines
One Marine's Journey From Pvt to Col — Col. Jim Bathurst USMC (ret) In this memoir, Col. Jim Bathurst reveals that for him, a Marine who went from Private to Bird Colonel and, in Vietnam, was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and a combat commission to 2nd Lieutenant, the Marine Corps was not a job, a career, or even a profession. It was and still is a way of life. |
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In Country My Memories of Vietnam and After — Lt Col. Rick Lindsey USMC (ret) This book is about Lt. Col Rick Lindsey's time as a young enlisted Marine, starting with his experience as a truck driver, an artilleryman, and then serving in Vietnam combat with Echo 2/1. He took an NVA bullet and he relates what it felt like to be wounded and to flow through the hospital system. |
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W is for Warrior
A 26-Day Devotional — Ivan Floyd Strope Ivan "Bud" Strope served with the Echo 2/1 in Vietnam in1966-1967. In this deeply reverent book Bud uses scripture and reasoning to come to grips triumphantly with the hopelessness and sense of futility common to combat veterans. |
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Letters Home
2nd Platoon, Echo — Tom Isenburg This story is about Echo 2/1's initial deployment to Vietnam in 1965 and the fighting that ensued. As Tom relates, the countryside was spectacularly beautiful, the people very kind and considerate, and the enemy a strong adversary. |