"When Thunder Rolled" review in ASPJ

On 3/14/04 3:04 PM, in article ,
"Ed Rasimus" wrote:

This is as much a sociological view as a combat memoir. There was
certainly more than enough combat to go around, but it is also the
story of personalities and interactions, excesses and idiosyncrasies.
It's a look at the microcosm of America's finest, taken out of the
society that had forsaken the war and placed, for better or for worse,
at the cutting edge of the nation's policy sword. Here's the Woodstock
generation coming face-to-face with Apocalypse Now. It isn't
necessarily good or bad. It simply is the way it is. And, the way I
remember it.

Ed,

I can't wait to read it.

Though your first book is excellent, for those of us lucky enough to have
grown older, this is the story we should pass along. By far a more important
story than the tales of young Company Grade Officers' coming of age in
coming to grips with the rigors of combat, is the story via a hot-button
metaphor of a nation adrift.



Jack