Author : Jim McGarrah
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis A Temporary Sort of Peace by : Jim McGarrah
Download or read book A Temporary Sort of Peace written by Jim McGarrah and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his memoir Jim McGarrah, poet and writer from southern Indiana, examines in detail his peacetime life growing up in Princeton, Indiana; his indoctrination into the cult of the Marines as a fledgling warrior in basic training at Parris Island in South Carolina; and his introduction to the life of a combat soldier in Vietnam observing bulging body bags at an air base's morgue in Da Nang and going to his first assignment armed with a malfunctioning M-16 rifle. Many years later, the former private first class, serial number 2371586, realized that for him, home had become "the jungles of Vietnam, the one place where life was at its best and worst simultaneously every minute of every day."