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Ehrhart has been called "the dean of Vietnam war poetry." Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature & the Arts , said Ehrhart's Vietnam–Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir , is "the best single, unadorned, gut-felt telling of one American's route into and out of America's longest war."
The author of these poems was W. E. Christian. The book is available online in several formats. It consists of a series of poems regarding military life prior to World War I. Some websites, including the official USMC website, [4] claim that the U.S. Marine Corps secured a copyright on the song either 19 August 1891 or 18 August 1919. [5]
He enlisted with the Marine Corps just after graduating from high school. He was a member of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines. He served in Vietnam for 11 months and seventeen days before being permanently disabled by his third wound at the battle of Con Thien in November 1967. He was medically retired as a corporal in 1969. [1]
"Our Hitch in Hell" is a ballad by American poet Frank Bernard Camp, originally published as one of 49 [1] ballads in a 1917 collection entitled American Soldier Ballads, that went on to inspire multiple variants among American law enforcement and military, either as The Final Inspection, the Soldier's Prayer (or Poem), the Policeman's Prayer ...
In his account of a 2003 combat deployment in Iraq, Soft Spots, Marine Sgt. Clint Van Winkle writes of such an incident: A car carrying two Iraqi men approached a Marine unit and a Marine opened fire, putting two bullet holes in the windshield and leaving the driver mortally wounded and his passenger torn open but alive, blood-drenched and ...
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War. This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry . Pre-1500
Robert Hugh Leckie (December 18, 1920 – December 24, 2001) was a United States Marine and an author of books about the military history of the United States, Catholic history and culture, sports books, fiction books, autobiographies, and children's books.
Jan Barry Crumb (January 26, 1943–) is an American poet, journalist, author, and activist. [1] A Vietnam veteran and former National Officer of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, [2] he resigned from West Point in 1964 "to become a writer and peace activist".