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History would come to know Vietnam’s Operation Harvest Moon as “the last big battle of 1965.” But for Dan Francis and many of his fellow Marines in the Second Battalion, First Marine Regiment, it was just the beginning of a long and difficult string of bloody battles with heavy losses. The events of Operation Harvest Moon, related from several points of view by the men who served there, set the stage for a series of named and unnamed operations in which the men of 2/1 would serve and die. Dan Francis offers a unique and thoughtful insight into the lives and experiences of the Marines whose sense of duty led them into a war doomed to failure. Sometimes touching, sometimes gritty, always brutally honest, The Last Ride Home is Francis’s account of two tours of duty in Vietnam—a remarkable chapter from his twenty-year career in the United States Marine Corps.
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"Booby Trap Boys" by Dave Beakey
"A unique journal about 13 months in the life of a machine gunner (0311/0331) from Echo 2/1 (1968-69). A series of 35 vignettes, 3 poems and 3 pictures; a picture of the original Booby Trap Boys, (January 1969), a picture of an Echo 2/1 Marine, (January, 1969) and a picture of Dave on the back cover, at Khe Sanh, (April, 1968)"
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Mail to: Dave Beakey, 63 Partridge Hill Rd, Braintree MA 02184-3841
"Just a Walk in the Park" by Tom Nolan
Hotel Company, 2/1 Weapons Plt, 0351 Squad Leader RVN 1967-68
This book is a rocket ride from my childhood to the end of my dreams. The road has many pot holes filled with gut wrenching laughter and spiced with the bitter sweet memories of lost friendships. The road is not paved with gold but the black tears of unfinished lives. There are forks in the road that lead to complete terror and others to utter joy. It is at times impossible to separate the two; it is at times insanity. This is not a tale of a life well planned but one of being bucked off and climbing back on. It
Paperback (6x9)............................. $ 12.95 Tom Nolan: tnolan@stny.rr.com
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sometimes runs amok, but these friendships are made to be bent, never broken. Some of these friendships were forged in the fires of the hell called Vietnam. The best and worst things on life’s road are those not expected. They can bring absolute joy and crushing sadness. So strap yourself to a chair and take a roller coaster ride with Pineapple, Woody, Mikey, Nick, and the wacky Nolans and all the others who climb aboard.
Corpsman Up!: A Marine Medic Struggles with War, God, and Patriotism" (Paperback) by David Johnson
2/1 Hotel Company, Corpsman - Vietnam 1967-68
I entered the military as most enlistees with only the beliefs I was raised with. I thought I knew what I was getting into only to discover that very little of combat was like anything I imagined it to be. I soon found myself wondering about the processes that got me to a war I personally opposed and have had to wonder since what that says about me.
I remember the day the foundation of my beliefs was shook to the ground. A
dying Marine wanted to know how god, the god that was suppose to protect him from harm, could have let what happened to him happen. I did not know, a realization that turned my whole world upside down. Why were we here --- dying in some mosquito infested swamp? For what? And who were the beneficiaries?
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"All Were Valiant" by Joe Eleazar Salinas
This book was written for the sole purpose of honoring the Vietnam Veteran
I served with 2/1 when they releaved the 3/27th Marine Regiment at Cau Ha in September of 1968. I was transfered from 3/27 Lima Company, 2nd Platoon, Machine Gunner in September to my first MOS as an 81mm mortar man in Cau Ha Marine Combat Base South of Marble Mountain. Got wounded on Octorber 13th, 1968 South of the village called Nui Kim just South of Marble mountain. I was attached to 2/1 81s.
My 402 page novel 'All Were Valiant' is about Lima Co 3rd Battalion 27th Marine Regiment trying to stay alive during the Vietnam War. The places and Valleys mentioned in this book are real. Some of the names used have been changed for the respect of the veterans and their families. Also, some of the veterans mentioned in this novel are real persons and without their help, this book would not have been possible to write.
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"The Rivers and the Rails" by Lee Suydam (1st Lt, 2/1 Echo Co., RVN 67-68)
Bedford Forrest was colorful and daring to be sure but even more interesting is that he was devious at times with his enemies. To Forrest, a trick was often better than a regiment of soldiers for if he could accomplish his purpose without spending the lives of his countrymen, so much the better. He was not military trained and therefore not aware that his tactics were unusual. Never mind that they were generally successful in remarkable ways. Born in poverty and raised in rural circumstances, he became a wealthy southern gentleman. In the Civil War, he gave his fortune in pursuit of victory and he raised three regiments of cavalry trying to save the Confederacy and his way of life.
What happened between Vicksburg and Appomattox
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Letters from Tommy J.: A Marine's Story - 1966-1967
Terri C. Walker (Author), Connie C. Hughes (Author), Gina Webb (Editor)
This is a fascinating personalized view of life as a Marine During the Vietnam War.
Warriors never die as long as people remember the wars. Therefore, Letters from Tommy J. represents a bittersweet remembrance of one among 58,000 Americans who died in Southeast Asia: an 18-year-old kid from Atlanta named Thomas J. Holzclaw III. Tommy s letters home from his time in country are set in context by chapters describing events that
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influenced his decision to serve, and how that service was conducted. This loving retrospective by the two nieces he never knew affords a look into one young life cut short by the ill-fated Vietnam conflict , and in the telling, the one represents the many.
