![]() ![]() who falls out of a helicopter-we must assume at low altitude-and must find his way back to base alone in the jungle at night. There are stories of a helicopter that falls off the Aircraft carrier, but all survive. In Templeton’s war of honorable marines, some of them following in the footsteps of their fathers and grandfathers. ![]() Where the enemy traveled in tunnels and crept up on American soldiers like killer lice. Reading Boot I laughed so hard at times I forgot I was reading about the gruesome war I grew up watching on television every night. Curiously, there is a one-eyed cockroach called Lomax with his own voice, an anthropomorphic literary device that sometimes serves as a North Star for G.O. ![]() Even the helicopters have clever names like Groundz for Divorce and Pandora’s Box. The main character George Orwell Hill, travels through this nasty semi-biographical war (because you can’t make this stuff up) with buddies like Bugman, Bear, Locker, Gallo, Gerber Baby and Duck. War is crazy, grizzly, obscene, and fatal but you will never get a vision of it like Charles Templeton tells his story of the Viet Nam War. ![]()
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