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Title: Plaintive drone
Review: As an author who is currently writing the biographical memoirs of his uncle who was a Marine(machine-gunner) and served in the battles of the Marshall Islands,Saipan,Tinian and Iwo Jima-I can not recognize the Marine Corps of which this author speaks. For the last year and a half I have interviewed my uncle and many of the Marines who served with him on the front lines of these brutal battles and not one of them has anything to say that remotely resembles Swofford's assertions.Most of these battles lost more men in five minutes than was lost in both Gulf Wars combined.Yet I have not heard the cynicism or bitterness from these heroes which seems to consume Swofford. The book entirely misses the essence of what I have come learn is the essence of a Marine. Swoffard certainly has no esprit. This book is a story less of the author's Marine Corps experience and more of his own demons and shortcomings.
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