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Eagle Days: A Marine Legal/Infantry Officer in Vietnam
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Eagle Days: A Marine Legal/Infantry Officer in Vietnam Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Donald W. Griffis


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Much has been written about America's war in Vietnam, and an enduring and troubling subtext is the composition of the body of soldiers that made up the U.S. troop deployment: from the initially well-trained and disciplined group of largely elite units that served in the mid-sixties to what has been termed an "armed mob" by the end of that decade and into the early 1970s. Drug use, insubordination, racial antagonism that often became violent, theft and black market dealing, and even "fragging" (murder of officers and senior noncoms by disgruntled troops) marred the record of the U.S. military presence. Don Griffis served in the twin roles of legal officer charged at various times with the task of both defending and prosecuting servicemen, while at the same time leading combat patrols in "search and destroy" missions against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese enemy. Eagle Days is a remarkable account of Griffis' personal record of experiencing what the military should do best--meet, engage, and defeat the enemy--and what it becomes when esprit de corps, discipline, and a sense of purpose decay.

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  • Title Eagle Days: A Marine Legal/Infantry Officer in Vietnam
  • Author Donald W. Griffis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa
  • Date 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780817315788 / 0817315780
  • Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.6 x 0.75 in (23.39 x 16.76 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Soldiers - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007004148
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2008, Page 50

About the author

Don W. Griffis served in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine Corps legal officer and platoon leader in 1968-69, when that conflict was at its height, primarily in the heavily populated coastal Da Nang region. He is now a practicing attorney in San Angelo, Texas.
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