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I used to read a lot of Dean Koontz and recently Elmore Leonard. If you havent, i would reccommend trying them out. Just some FYI.
Anyway, right now im reading NAM by Mark Baker. It is very very good. Its about vietnam and it is just a bunch of stories told by the soldiers who were actually there. Some of the stuff you hear these guys say will blow your mind. I reccommend this to anyone interested in learning about what it was like over there.
Its interesting to see that a lot of what you see in the movies, is pretty accurate. But with the book you get all the behind the scenes stuff. They even get some nurses to tell their stories.
Let me see if i can find a short one and i'll give you a little taste:
Spoilers!!(I guess) better to be safe:
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"Chapter: Grunts"
I had jungle rot so bad on my hands that the only way I could carry my rifle
was to cradle it in the bend in my elbows with my hands up in front of my
face. I couldnt hold on to it my hands were so sore and burning. My feet
were like that too.
Same Chapter:
You know how you stop the shits? You eat the peanut butter in the C-rations. You wouldnt shit again until you drank the Grape Juice. Drink the grage juice you shit your brains out. Between the grape juice and the peanut butter you were regular.
Those are just some mid-level stories, they got some real good stuff in there.
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