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Title: Not what I expected
Review: Although the anguish of combat and graphic scenes of death and devastation that the author encountered must have been overwhelming (and I fortunately have never had to deal with such awful circumstances), I found myself wondering what the book was telling me. Was the author disturbed by his wartime experience, or before it by his own life experience?He makes the case that Marines, or "Jarheads" must all think and act like hard-living drunken killing machines, but many of the Marines I know and have known were simply not cut from that cloth.I certainly hope for the sake of our military that there are finer examples of proud Americans serving their country (in peace or war), that are more worthy of our respect than the soldiers the author describes.
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