this is one of a handful of great books about the everyday life of a Marine in Vietnam, who was killed in the line of duty. Edward Renshaw was an 18 year old volunteer, who took a tour of duty in Vietnam and stepped on a Bouncing Betty, a landmine used by the Viet Cong. This altered his life and his spirit
He was a young man from a different world plunged into a white-hot, murderous realm of ju