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Title: This book is therapy for Swofford
Review: Swofford gives his account of his experience in the Marines and the Gulf War. He reduces his exeriences to the rawest of emotions and his descriptions are never sugarcoated. It was obvious (even by Swofford's own account) that he was not only dealing with the hardships of life in the Marine Corps and war, but he was also fighting internal battles from his childhhod - mainly issues with his father. Some Marines can handle the cards the Marines and war deal him. Others, like Swofford, hold on to all of the negative aspects and allow them to fester. The result? Swofford sticks an M16 in his mouth when the going gets tough, pisses his pants when he must actually perform on the battle field, and then writes a book about it. This book was mildly entertaining, but being a former Marine made it clear that most of what Swofford cried and whined about, the majority of Marines would laugh about in retrospect.
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