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 A must read for anyone who
has been or have had loved ones stationed overseas or in combat. This book
describes my journey to becoming a combat corpsman with Ripley’s Raiders in
Vietnam during 1967.
Check out some
samples of the writing
and come back and order a copy.
This website
was actually the beginning when I wrote my memories of 3d Battalion, 3d Marines
and published it on the internet in 1999.
In 2005
Louise, my girlfriend back in the states when I was in Nam, surfaced and
told me that she had saved every letter I had written her. She loaned them
to me and I scanned them all.
After
transcribing all the letters into a word processer I used them as the
framework for the book. Over the next several years I was able to expand
and document the details of my Vietnam experience. I also included 50
photos.
Finally in
2010 my memories, which had always lurked just under the surface, were
safely recorded and published in these 408 pages of Letters to Louise. Having completed this project they now have
retired to the deeper recesses of my brain.
Member
Military
Writers Society of America
Letters to Louise is available for purchase in hard back, paper
back or Kindle on Amazon.com
All
my royalty checks will be donated to THE COL.JOHN W RIPLEY
MEMORIAL FOUNDATION TRUST and when that project is complete to THE THIRD BATTALION, THIRD MARINES
MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
Chuck Goggin
manning the Col. John W Ripley Memorial Foundation Trust desk at the 2010
Reunion in Washington DC which featured books Ride
the Thunder by Richard Botkin and Letters
to Louise by Russell J. Jewett
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