Like Killing Rats (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
I Corps, Republic of South Vietnam, bloody 1968
Live the harrowing highs and traumatic lows of one marine youth who finds his seven-month in country war-weary self carrying a field radio burden for a suspect glory-minded forward observer artillery...
Live the harrowing highs and traumatic lows of one marine youth who finds his seven-month in country war-weary self carrying a field radio burden for a suspect glory-minded forward observer artillery...
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I Corps, Republic of South Vietnam, bloody 1968
Live the harrowing highs and traumatic lows of one marine youth who finds his seven-month in country war-weary self carrying a field radio burden for a suspect glory-minded forward observer artillery officer whod yet to learn the undeclared war was a government sham, a political ruse that would one tragic day force the FO teams command structured relationship to a whos responsible head over a short round of friendly artillery, which put their field commander permanently out of action. The resolve-testing war with the North Vietnamese Army, the near immobilizing, ever-sweltering jungle mountains and sandy flatlands, the thought-friendly villages, the two of our people executed, the four enemy prisoners executed in turn, as well as President Johnsons bombing halts and retaking enemy positions are the nerve-pickling building blocks shackled themselves together like a confrontation-packed novel about combat-weary vets not taught to run from a political fight either.
Experience the combative days, literally sweat the chancy nights, devour the popular songs . . . when lucky enough to hear such haunting sounds as Get Off My Cloud by the Rolling Stones. For one cant simply throw their rifle down and quit! The corps will toss said shameless in the brig for untold years; though a panicked one can steal away into the masking jungle and surrender, yet hard-core enemy will put a bullet through a deserters enlisted head like a pesky bunker rat, unless ones a commissioned officer, then the VC might keep said alive as a peace-bargaining chip.
One may understand the historic reason why many the combat marine during such oh-so-questioning times likened themselves to the politically used, if not correct, title of Uncle Sams misguided childrenknow what its truly like to stalk and be stalked, kill or be killed, fear and be feared.
Live the harrowing highs and traumatic lows of one marine youth who finds his seven-month in country war-weary self carrying a field radio burden for a suspect glory-minded forward observer artillery officer whod yet to learn the undeclared war was a government sham, a political ruse that would one tragic day force the FO teams command structured relationship to a whos responsible head over a short round of friendly artillery, which put their field commander permanently out of action. The resolve-testing war with the North Vietnamese Army, the near immobilizing, ever-sweltering jungle mountains and sandy flatlands, the thought-friendly villages, the two of our people executed, the four enemy prisoners executed in turn, as well as President Johnsons bombing halts and retaking enemy positions are the nerve-pickling building blocks shackled themselves together like a confrontation-packed novel about combat-weary vets not taught to run from a political fight either.
Experience the combative days, literally sweat the chancy nights, devour the popular songs . . . when lucky enough to hear such haunting sounds as Get Off My Cloud by the Rolling Stones. For one cant simply throw their rifle down and quit! The corps will toss said shameless in the brig for untold years; though a panicked one can steal away into the masking jungle and surrender, yet hard-core enemy will put a bullet through a deserters enlisted head like a pesky bunker rat, unless ones a commissioned officer, then the VC might keep said alive as a peace-bargaining chip.
One may understand the historic reason why many the combat marine during such oh-so-questioning times likened themselves to the politically used, if not correct, title of Uncle Sams misguided childrenknow what its truly like to stalk and be stalked, kill or be killed, fear and be feared.
Autoren-Porträt von Cpl. Osborn R. E.
Ross Eddy Osborn was brought up in the blue-collar southside tough in Oklahoma City during the fifties and rock-and-roll sixties; little late-night prowling with his preteen pals, bit of hubcap nicking, watermelon stealing, girly window peeking, firecracker sneaking, yet told by his card-sharp, gamble-wise father to never do anything a fifty-dollar fine won't get him out of. But reason, songs, and haircuts all change during the British invasion era with the Beatles, Stones, the Who, and Osborn's "teddy boy" like lot went by the code of "Hope I die before I get old!" but in a more beer-fueled, be-true-to-your-high-school, smack-talking, fists-fighting way. Hot dates, sock hops, and broken hearts but the cost of the young and restless. Having been given the gate by a beauty that exclaimed, "Each should date around," Osborn found his heart in pieces when he slid sideways into an oncoming car one rain slick day, which hurt a woman and her screaming little girl, if not too seriously. Broken in spirit but unhurt, a shamed Osborn thought it only right to enlist in the armed forces and defy communist aggression against a free-born South Vietnam people, or something along that political self-regaining order on July 17, 1967. The rest, well, the bloody rest is United States Marine Corps history, year of the monkey . . . or was it monkey's uncle? Oh yeah, he's got two sisters, a baby brother, a hardheaded but loving Mic American mama, and a brand-new sworn to "wait forever for him" girlfriend. And he kinda passed high school, maybe even driver's education. Just keeping it real when it was . . . why not, Mr. President?
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Cpl. Osborn R. E.
- 2016, 540 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Xlibris US
- ISBN-10: 1514403587
- ISBN-13: 9781514403587
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.02.2016
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