By Ron Steinman
The Vietnam conflict raged for ten years and whilst it was once over 58,000 americans lay useless. The warfare replaced the attention of the army and the very nature of conflict sooner or later. collecting the voices and eyewitness tales of seventy-seven veterans from all branches of the army, the warriors' tale is the 1st significant oral historical past of the Vietnam warfare. via tale after tale, we come to appreciate that conflict is harrowing, strong and unforgettable. the lads during this publication are a tribute to the triumph of the human spirit over poor adversity in an international they neither made nor sought after. those veterans have opened their hearts and souls to readers, and Steinman's observation places every little thing into point of view. "Of all of the phrases written because the battle, few are as robust as these of squaddies recalling their very own studies in a warfare that lasted too lengthy and got here to such an inglorious end." (Booklist)
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As I understand it, they ran closer than they had ever intentionally run in on friendly troops, and they're dropping these huge bombs with pinpoint accuracy. To go back a little, with all the firing that we were doing and all the support fires I had coming in, there's no way I could tell friendly fire from unfriendly fire. And then all of a sudden, this whole hill started shaking like an earthquake, and I thought, Oh, my Lord, they've tunneled underneath us, which I was worried about and they were trying to set off charges to blow the whole hill up, which turned out later not to be the case.
I wanted to make sure of that. You always try to get a wounded enemy because he's a good source of intelligence, but in the heat of battle I wasn't concerned with that. I didn't get shot going up there because I happened to be in the right place at the right time. In the heat of the battle you just don't know where the bullets are unless it hits you. When the enemy was all silenced, I told my men to come on forward, "Lets go. " But there were other pockets of resistance so after I told them to come forward, I was wounded by an enemy soldier.
Friendships formed the camaraderie. The faith you learn in your fellow man. When you stop to think that your sheer existence is in the hands of some teenagers that you hardly know, you develop one type of faith. Another type of faith is that the Marine Corps won't let you down. They were held together primarily by esprit de corps. They were given lectures before they went over there that they were going to stop the flow of communism, and God, mother, country, apple pie, Chevrolets, and all the rest of it.