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Summary: The Way it REALLY Was
Review: Ernie Spencer is one of the best Company Commanders the USMC has had. Macho Man is a trip through the worst of the war in Vietnam conucted by an a fine writer who is able to capture the ordinary life of a grunt, combat and the tensions that war places on young men. This no self congratulatory memoir. This comes from the heart. A ride with the "Macho Man" is a unique and penetrating experience.
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Summary: Want to see what you missed?
Review: For every individual boomer who always wondered what it would have been like over there, read this book. It will take you step by step as if you, yourself were there. It is fascinating and well written. In fact, I don't believe I've read books in fractions that cover every facet of what happened to the 26th Marines MEU. What their thoughts were, how they felt, and how isolated we really were.
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Summary: Want to see what you missed?
Review: For every individual boomer who always wondered what it would have been like over there, read this book. It will take you step by step as if you, yourself were there. It is fascinating and well written. In fact, I don't believe I've read books in fractions that cover every facet of what happened to the 26th Marines MEU. What their thoughts were, how they felt, and how isolated we really were.
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Summary: The wall of silence
Review: I came across this book, in a stand of penny-novels, in a 24/7 convenience shop, sometime round-about 1990.It impressed me deeply. Like Spencer, I am a Catholic. Reviewers elsewhere have said that it should be required reading for junior officers. I think that it should be mandatory reading for popes, cardinals,bishops and all of the rest of the catholic corporate executives - who stayed home, who avoided the reality of it all. The wrong catholics got sent to see and experience the horror and the evil, - and to understand how they'd been betrayed by the sky-pilots. These things should have been experienced by those at the very top of the Church heirarchy; not just those at the very bottom. Spencer makes it quite clear that this betrayal is what has driven him to write a book, to share his experience, to try to educate those who saw nothing of it, and who simply dismiss what one tries to say - and who just roll along to church on Sunday as if it all never happened. As if no women and kids were ever napalmed , no soldier ever had his body blown apart - or, if they did happen to be, then that had nothing whatsoever to do with rolling along to church on Sunday.
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