Lullabies for lieutenants: memoir of a Marine forward observer in Vietnam, 1965 - 1966
"This memoir recounts the experiences of a Marine Corps officer. Each chapter describes a specific event, a story of emotion, or a remarkable person. The reader lives the experience alongside the author's memory, gaining a sense of the pulse-pounding contact, surrealism, pathos, humor, and...
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Jefferson, N.C. [u.a.]
McFarland & Co.
2010
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This memoir recounts the experiences of a Marine Corps officer. Each chapter describes a specific event, a story of emotion, or a remarkable person. The reader lives the experience alongside the author's memory, gaining a sense of the pulse-pounding contact, surrealism, pathos, humor, and beauty that defined one of the low points of the American experience"--Provided by publisher |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 210 p. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780786447190 |
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Contents
Acknowledgments
.........................................
vii
Preface
.................................................. 1
Part I: Forward Observer
1.
We Never Promised You a Rose Garden
....................7
2.
Landing at Red Beach
................................. 13
3.
Forward Observer
.................................... 19
4.
Ambush
............................................ 25
5.
Hearts and Minds
.................................... 32
6.
Night Vertical Assault
................................. 36
7.
Her Majesty
......................................... 42
8.
Surrounded
......................................... 48
9.
A Captain of Marines
................................. 59
10.
Anger
..............................................65
11.
The Lieutenants
...................................... 70
Part II: Heroes and Goats
12.
A Culture Like No Other
.............................. 89
13.
Okinawa
........................................... 93
14.
Second Battalion, Ninth Marines Headquarters
............ 103
15.
Cam
Ne
Burning
....................................
Ill
16.
The Loser
.......................................... 118
17.
Disaster
........................................... 123
18.
Gooks
............................................ 127
19.
Meltdown
......................................... 133
IX
x
Table of Contents
20.
The Disappearance of First Lieutenant James T. Egan, Jr
..... 140
21.
Twenty Minutes of Terror: Night Sapper Attack
........... 148
22.
Random Chaos
..................................... 156
Part III: Hopes and Dreams
23.
Her
............................................... 171
24.
Short Timer
........................................ 175
25.
Irony
............................................. 180
26.
Residuals: Denial, Anger, and Risk-Taking
............... 185
27.
Mao, Ho, and United States Policy
...................... 197
Glossary
............................................... 201
Index
................................................. 203
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