Download or read book Semper Fi Do Or Die written by Keith Laufenberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow a group of young men as they go through Marine Corps boot camp in 1962, at Parris Island, and then to their duty stations and Vietnam. If you want to know what the Corps was really like in the 1960's and those that served during this tumultuous time in history this is the book for you!
Download or read book We Ll All Die as Marines written by Colonel Jim Bathurst USMC (Retired) and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For seventeen-year-old high school dropout Jim Bathurst, the Marine Corps’s reputation for making men out of boys was something he desperately needed when he enlisted in March of 1958. What began as a four-year hitch lasted nearly thirty-six years and included an interesting assortment of duty stations and assignments as both enlisted and officer. We’ll All Die As Marines narrates a story about a young, free-spirited kid from Dundalk, Maryland, and how the Corps captured his body, mind, and spirit. Slowly, but persistently, the Corps transformed him into someone whose first love would forever be the United States Marine Corps. It documents not only his leadership, service, and training but also regales many tales of his fellow Marines that will have the reader laughing, cheering, and at times crying. In this memoir, Bathurst reveals that for him—a former DI who was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V”, Purple Heart, and a combat commission to second lieutenant—the Corps was not a job, a career, or even a profession; it was—and still is—a way of life.
Download or read book Semper Fi Three Five written by David Denny and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RETURN NOW TO THOSE THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR! THE PSYCHEDELIC, SIZZLING SIXTIES! FOR A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR OF THE ERA. JUST DROP OUT AND DROP IN TO SEE WHAT CONDITION YOUR CONDITION IS IN. SEE THE BURNING BUDDHIST MONKS OF ASIA, THE ASSASSINATIONS OF JFK, RFK, AND MLK. THE FIGHT OVER CIVIL RIGHTS BETWEEN BLACKS, WHITES, AND THE KKK. THE BRITISH INVASION AND THE INFESTATION OF BEATLES IN OUR MUSIC. HIPPIES EVERYWHERE ARE HEADED WEST – CALIFORNIA DREAMING DURING THE ’67 SUMMER OF LOVE. AMERICA TAKES A STAND IN A FAR AWAY LAND – VIETNAM. UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU! BURN YOUR DRAFT CARDS? LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT? NO VIET CONG EVER HURT ME SCREAMS ALI, AS HE GOES OFF TO FIGHT – FOR A FEE. GIVE PEACE A CHANCE! THE HIPPIES CHANT WHILE THEY WRAP THEMSELVES IN THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE. THEY HAVEN’T A CLUE AS TO WHAT A NATION MUST DO TO REMAIN FREE. THEIR VERY RIGHT TO PROTEST, MARCH, SIT IN, AND DEMONSTRATE COMES AT A VERY HIGH RATE. THE PRICE HAS BEEN PAID BY THE SACRIFICE OF PATRIOTS LIVES AND BLOOD EVER SINCE 1776. REAL PEACE COMES AT A HEAVY COST, LIVES ARE LOST. WAR IS HELL! BOMB HANOI SEARCH AND DESTROY FROM THE DMZ DOWN SOUTH TO SAIGON, UP TO KESANH AND HUE CITY. BATTLE AFTER BATTLE IS WON; THE TROOPS GET THE JOB DONE. THE U.S. HAS KICKED CHARLIE’S NVA ASS, GET SOME! GET SOME! TET ARRIVES AND TO OUR SURPRISE THE PRESS, UNCLE WALTER AND CBS SAY THAT THE WAR CAN’T BE WON! LBJ’S SICK OF IT ALL AND MAKES THE CALL. IT’S LEFT UP TO TRICKY DICK TO PULL THE PLUG AND A ONCE FREE NATION GOES DOWN THE DRAIN. THE VIETNAM WALL SAYS IT ALL – “FREEDOM ISN’T FREE”. REMEMBER, THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM IS NEVER IN VAIN! WE CAN ONLY PRAY THAT GOD WILL CONTINUE TO BLESS THE USA IN IT’S QUEST FOR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. DAVID L. DENNY
Download or read book The Eyes of Honor written by Dr. Gene Herndon and published by Aion Multimedia Publishing . This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honor has become a lost art in today's society. We see dishonor not only in the world but unfortunately in the church. In 1 Samuel 2:35b the Bible says, “for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed”. God is very clear about honor and the Bible has much to say about it. In the days of old, people were very honorable towards God and His things. However, there is a spirit of disobedience working to relegate the things of and pertaining to God down to the unimportant and insignificant. In these times, we must find our way back to understanding honor and God's Plan of Favor on our lives. Honor is truly the Currency of Heaven and becomes the vehicle by which the Blessing flows. This book illuminates the ways that many dishonor God. It has become so subtle that many are completely unaware. There are many truths that when applied, the believer will begin to experience the Blessing moving in ways that they have never seen before. When we master these precepts of being honorable, the flood gates of currency will begin to open and uncommon favor is released into our lives. Honor truly is the Currency of Heaven by which all Heavenly Business is transacted.
Download or read book Make Peace Or Die written by Charles U Daly and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irishman in the U.S Marine Corps, Charles U. Daly thinks fighting in Korea will be an adventure and a way to live up to a family tradition of service and soldiering. He comes home decorated, wounded, and traumatized, wondering what's next. His quest for a new mission will take him to JFK's White House, Bobby Kennedy's fateful campaign, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and a South African township devastated by the AIDS epidemic. Chuck's life is a true story of living up to Kennedy's challenge to "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." At every juncture, he's had two options: make peace or die. Daly chose to make peace with his fate every time, and that decision led him to a remarkable life of service.
Download or read book Semper Fidelis written by Johnnie Clark and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Light of Darkness written by Butchie and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book/journal, which is entitled In the Light of Darkness, is based on the author’s personal journey through deep depression, darkness, despair, hopelessness, suicide and back because of a lifetime of bipolar depression and eighteen years of sibling violence (domestic violence) in his home. Along with the bipolar depression, because of the abuse, he was also diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Oftentimes, there is a direct correlation between the two, mirror images of each other. Both of these social stigmas are largely overlooked—and this book was written to bring about and raise awareness concerning these toxic taboos, which have been hush-hush and swept under the rug of our social consciousness for far too long. You may not always see the bruises or signs of deep, dark depression, but look closer, listen, and talk to people who are suffering. Show them you truly care and love them and that you are there for them no matter what they are going through because they matter. Let’s stop the madness. Tell someone and/or seek professional help. This book is Wade Robinson’s story and is an intriguing, in-depth, dark journey through life and death.
Download or read book Hard Corps written by Marco Martinez and published by Crown Forum. This book was released on 2008 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 17, Marco Martinez was a thug--a gun-toting, car-stealing gang member. At the age of 22, he was a hero--the recipient of the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism under fire in the Iraq War. This is the story of his incredible transformation and of his experiences on the front lines of the War on Terror. Writing with passion and candor, Martinez brings us back to his gang days, then takes us through the grueling ordeal of Marine boot camp and the even-more-punishing training at the School of Infantry to show just how warriors are made. Then he unfolds a warrior's tale: we join his Marine squad as they patrol the most dangerous war zone imaginable, the narrow, treacherous streets of Baghdad, and into a brutal terrorist ambush that calls upon reserves of ferocity and courage none of the Marines could ever be certain they possessed.--From publisher description.
Download or read book Dead End Bayou written by Savoy Rody and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rajun Cajun, Ozark Hillbilly, Alabama Wild man and a Texas Tornado, all Vietnam veterans, team up to pull off a monumental heist of a gambling Riverboat in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. They travel half the world to get the resources to pull it off. Deception, double cross and a physic girlfriend all blend in to make an exciting suspense-filled social gumbo.
Download or read book West Dickens Avenue written by John Corbett and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1968, John Corbett and his fellow leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment fortified a remote outpost at a place in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. Within days of their arrival, twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base. What followed over the next seventy-seven days became one of the deadliest fights of the Vietnam War—and one of the greatest battles in military history. Private First Class Corbett made do with little or no sleep for days on end. The enemy bombarded the base incessantly. Extremes of heat, cold, and fog added to the misery, as did all manner of wounds and injuries too minor to justify evacuation from frontline positions. The emotional toll was tremendous as the Marines saw their friends suffer and die every day of the siege. Corbett relates these experiences through the eyes of a twenty-year-old but with the mind and maturity of a man now in his fifties. His story of life, death, and growing up on the front lines at Khe Sanh speaks for all of the Marines caught up in the epic siege of the Vietnam War.
Download or read book Goodnight Saigon written by Charles Henderson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the final days of the Vietnam War from the author of Marine Sniper. Culled from extensive interviews and research, Goodnight Saigon is the achingly dramatic story of the end of the Vietnam War as told from both sides of the conflict. Included are never-before-revealed accounts from people of every level involved in the war: NVA and Viet Cong soldiers, U.S. embassy personnel, guerilla commanders, civilians, generals, double agents? and leaders from both sides including former president Gerald Ford and North Vietnamese military commander General Tran Van Tra. From the first hints of the final offensive from the north, to the gut-wrenching hours before the fall of Saigon when a brave pilot defied his orders to return to base and rescued the last five Marines from the rooftop of the U.S. embassy, Goodnight Saigon is an unforgettable narrative of war, and those who live with its aftermath. Winner: American Society of Journalists and Authors Outstanding Book Award, General Nonfiction, 2006
Download or read book We Marines written by Edward (Ned) Black and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam era was a time of turmoil and change in the United States, one of anger and anguish for some; especially among young men facing a call up for military service. Writings about this time have focused mostly on the protest viewpoint. But not everyone who went to Vietnam did so against their will. Many were proud to fight for their country, especially the early war cadre of troops, mostly in the Marine Corps, who were all volunteers. It was what they had joined up and trained for, and they were determined to do their duty wherever it took them. The name of the place did not matter, what mattered was that the Corps told them to go. WE MARINES, is the authors experience in the military from age seventeen to twenty-three. A young man who wanted to be a Marine, and served in peace time, the Cuban Crisis, and Vietnam. He didn’t mind going into combat with his buddies, and when his overseas rotation was up volunteered a second time to stay with them. WE MARINES, deals with our involvement in Vietnam in 1965-66 offering a personal view of the war and its aftermath too often ignored, until now. It is written especially for his family and those who were there.
Download or read book On Manly Courage written by Walter T. Schmid and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter T. Schmid offers the first original interpretation of the Laches since Hermann Bonitz in the nineteenth century in the only full-length commentary on the Laches available in English. Schmid divides the book into five main discussions: the historical background of the dialogue; the relation of form and content in a Platonic dialogue and specific structural and aesthetic features of the Laches; the first half of the dialogue, which introduces the characters and considers the theme of the education of young men; the inquiry with Laches, which examines the traditional Greek conception of military courage; and the inquiry with Nicias in which two nontraditional conceptions of courage are mooted, one closely associated with the sophistic movement in Athens, the other with Socrates himself. Furnishing a detailed paragraph-by-paragraph reading that traces Socrates' ongoing quest for virtue and wisdom--a wisdom founded in the action of a whole human life--Schmid conclusively shows how and why the Laches fills an important niche in Plato's moral theory.
Download or read book Strands of Memory Epilogue written by William R. Tracey, Ed.D. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strands of Memory--Epilogue is a collection of sweet and bittersweet memories that reveals the author's successes and failures, dreams and fantasies, strengths and weaknesses. It tells stories and draws word pictures celebrating life in more than two hundred poems. The author shares thoughts and feelings about his experiences over a period of more than ninety years. It commemorates people in his life, especially family and friends, and their loves, friendships, courage, challenges, and strengths. It talks about love, family, friendships, work, war, nature, life, and death. This collection also sings the songs of his life and describes his joys and sorrows. It chronicles incidents, events, and the things that have troubled, hurt, and pleased the author, his family, and his friends. His hope is that the events, poetry, love, family, friendship, and situations described in both rhyme and free verse include many to which readers will readily relate because they have shared similar experiences--in short, that the poems will touch readers' hearts, minds, and souls.
Download or read book Sailing Alone written by Richard J. King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A masterfully curated collection...You don’t have to be a sailor to be blown away by this fascinating, bighearted book.” —Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, Travels with George, and Second Wind A story as vast and exhilarating as the open ocean itself, SAILING ALONE chronicles the daring, disastrous, and often absurd history of those who chose to sail across the ocean, in very small boats, alone. Sailing by yourself, out of sight of land, can be invigorating and terrifying, compelling and tedious - and sometimes all of the above in one morning. But it is also a wide expanse of time in which to think. Sailing Alone tells the story of some of the remarkable people who, over the last four centuries, have spent weeks and months, moving slowly over the world's largest laboratory: a capricious and startling place in which to observe oneself, the weather, the stars, and countless sea creatures, from the tiniest to the most massive and threatening. Richard J. King profiles characters famous, diverse, international, and obscure, from Joshua Slocum of 1898 to modern teenagers daring to take the challenge. They see strange hallucinations, lie to us (and themselves) on their travel logs, encounter sharks, befriend birds, and experience ESP, all part of the unnerving reality of extended isolation. And some disappear altogether. Sailing Alone also recounts the author's own nearly catastrophic solo crossing of the Atlantic, and the mystery of his inexplicable survival one sunny afternoon. An enormously engaging new book for skippers and armchair voyagers alike.
Download or read book The Glass Marines written by Peter D'Alessio and published by Stasheff Literary Enterprises. This book was released on 2012-04-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light-years into deep space aboard an alien cargo freighter, Marine Sergeant Christopher receives a bizarre order: Make 185 Malacan aliens into United States Marines. But the Malacans aliens are so... alien. Their culture, psychology, even physiology is so very, very different. What physical training standards do you use for a race that can do 200 push-ups with breaking a sweat, but can't do a single squat-thrust? Worse yet, the Malacans are a passive and docile species, with little or no sense of independence, ambition, or aggression. But the Corps don't want sheep - they want Marines! With only three fellow Drill Instructors, century-old surplus weapons and equipment, and just eighteen weeks for Boot Camp, can Sergeant Christopher teach the meek and submissive aliens what it means to be one of the few and the proud?
Download or read book Stoner written by Steve Samples and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoner is the story of a teenage Marine in Vietnam.
