Corporal Edward F. Palm became a combined-action Marine in 1967. His memoir recounts his experiences fighting with the South Vietnamese, his readjustment to life after the war, and the circumstances that prompted him to join the Corps in the first place.
Corporal Edward F. Palm became a combined-action Marine in 1967. His memoir recounts his experiences fighting with the South Vietnamese, his readjustment to life after the war, and the circumstances that prompted him to join the Corps in the first place.
Edward F. Palm served in Vietnam as an enlisted Marine with the Combined Action Program. Returning to the Marine Corps in later life, he became an officer and taught military affairs at the University of California, Berkeley, and English at the United States Naval Academy before retiring as a major in 1993. He lives in Forest, Virginia.
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Table of Contents Dedication and Acknowledgments Preface 1. The Identification 2. Palm and the Delaware Dream 3. My Great Expectations 4. Mixed Blessings 5. How It All Began 6. That Other Parris 7. The Sticking Point 8. Camp Lejeune 9. Delaware Revisited 10. An Enlightened Gesture of Dissent 11. Palm on the Supply Side 12. Deliverance 13. CAP School 14. Papa One Confidential 15. Flashback: The Girl I Left Behind 16. Tiger Papa Three 17. The Dramatis Personae 18. Blissful Ignorance 19. Flashback: My Great Expectations Revisited, July 1966 20. And the Rains Came! 21. Hard Times 22. Deus ex Machina the Second 23. The Way We Were 24. Puff the Magic Dragon Comes to Call 25. Schism 26. Close Encounters of the Strange Kind 27. On Courage-Physical and Moral 28. Winning Hearts and Minds 29. Boys Will Be Boys-American and Vietnamese 30. The R&R Experience 31. The Fire Next Time-December 4, 1967 32. Confession Being Good for the Soul... 33. Innocents Abroad 34. A Way You'll Never Be 35. Life Goes On 36. The Shape of Things to Come 37. Coming Home 38. Looking Back on Leaving 39. A Siren's Spell 40. "All the way with LBJ!" 41. Shelter from the Storm 42. A Chance Encounter with the Third Kind-of Girl 43. Palm at Penn 44. Men Without a Country 45. Vietnam and Modern Memory Epilogue Index
Table of Contents Dedication and Acknowledgments Preface 1. The Identification 2. Palm and the Delaware Dream 3. My Great Expectations 4. Mixed Blessings 5. How It All Began 6. That Other Parris 7. The Sticking Point 8. Camp Lejeune 9. Delaware Revisited 10. An Enlightened Gesture of Dissent 11. Palm on the Supply Side 12. Deliverance 13. CAP School 14. Papa One Confidential 15. Flashback: The Girl I Left Behind 16. Tiger Papa Three 17. The Dramatis Personae 18. Blissful Ignorance 19. Flashback: My Great Expectations Revisited, July 1966 20. And the Rains Came! 21. Hard Times 22. Deus ex Machina the Second 23. The Way We Were 24. Puff the Magic Dragon Comes to Call 25. Schism 26. Close Encounters of the Strange Kind 27. On Courage-Physical and Moral 28. Winning Hearts and Minds 29. Boys Will Be Boys-American and Vietnamese 30. The R&R Experience 31. The Fire Next Time-December 4, 1967 32. Confession Being Good for the Soul... 33. Innocents Abroad 34. A Way You'll Never Be 35. Life Goes On 36. The Shape of Things to Come 37. Coming Home 38. Looking Back on Leaving 39. A Siren's Spell 40. "All the way with LBJ!" 41. Shelter from the Storm 42. A Chance Encounter with the Third Kind-of Girl 43. Palm at Penn 44. Men Without a Country 45. Vietnam and Modern Memory Epilogue Index
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