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by Ray Hildreth

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Voices of the Pacific, Expanded Edition by Adam Makos

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Sure, the horrors never leave you. But I can say until my dying day that I fought with the United States Marine Corps.

Gates of Fire

by Steven Pressfield

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“Reservists and citizen-soldiers stand ready, in every free nation, to stand to the colors and die in holocaust, the big war. Reservists and citizen-soldiers remain utterly reluctant to stand and die in anything less. . . . The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made.”
― Max Boot, The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

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