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 A line Infantryman comments May 27, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
In 1966 the infantry company to which I belonged was preparing to conduct a combat air assault into War Zone C during Operation Attleboro. I was told that a reporter would accompany my platoon. It was then that I met less than 5',less than 100 pounds, just 21 Cathy Leroy. On this operation she earned the respect of all of the men in the company. She was right there with us, always carrying her weight, always where the action was.
"Under Fire" tells the story of combat in Vietnam as it was. In our war too many of our fellow citizens held the soldier responsible for doing what the leaders of his country had asked him to do. Those same soldiers returned from war and found it impossible to explain what they had done, what they had witnessed, and how they had suffered as the result of the life and death struggle in which they had fought. The photographs and narratives in "Under Fire" tell their story in a way that the reader can understand even if the reader has not personally experienced the devastation of combat.
Thank you Cathy for bringing us this work.
A grunt Marine......... May 12, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is as close as you can get in 2 dimensions to the 'reality' of 'war', words so often used but rarely, and really, never understood by those who have never lived through the experience.
The passion expressed in the photographs and words of the contributors to this work evoke memories to those of us who were there that will never completely fade. The experience has changed us all forever, and that is good. Vietnam was no different than any other war, people die, most innocent, some not, but what have we to gain from it ?
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