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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." Ehrhart has been an active member of Vietnam Veterans Against ...
He said, "I have to tell the story of how it really was. I have to let people know the war wasn't a musical." [4] His first and best-selling book, Helmet for My Pillow, a war memoir, was published in 1957. [5] Leckie wrote more than 40 books on American war history, spanning from the French and Indian War (1754–1763) to Desert Storm (1991). [6]
The book received wide acclaim and is on the required reading list for U.S. Marines and is on the Commandant's Professional Reading List. [1] Praise came from luminaries ranging from U.S. Marine Corps General Jim Mattis to award winning historians Carlo D'Este and Hampton Sides, among others.
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".
[1] Swofford blamed the banning of Jarhead on "MAGA intrusionists" who objected to the book's frank depiction of the daily life of U.S. Marines." [1] Swofford wrote that most of the objections to his book stemmed from the "field fuck" scene where Swofford and other Marines simulated gay sex while dressed in full protection gear from weapons of ...
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 ...
Submarines" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the third of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title "The Fringes of the Fleet". [1] Like the others in the cycle, is intended for four baritone voices.
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