Adam Dumphy

Annals of Chesty O'dunahy (eBook, ePUB)

The Tallest Tall Tales of the U.S. Marines

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The U.S. Marines have never had need of a publicist. Still they have had many. None can compare with Col. J.W.T. Jr. When one of his books came out with his sketches the young ridge runners, North and South would come down out of the mountains by the droves to have their manes roached, hoofs trimmed and enlist.

Colonel T. established the idealized example of them as hard drinking, hard fighting, hard living, and hard to kill. Of course he was speaking of the "Old Corps" which never existed except in fantasy. Still generations of Marines have tried to live up to this mold. The following fictional stories are of a little man who did just that.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781463496210
• Artikelnr.: 69327495

Autorenporträt

Adam Dumphy's first introduction into the aura, the espirit, the tradition, of those exalted personages, 'Marines of the Old Corps' was in fifth grade when he ran across a book by J. W. T. Jr. Though he knew even then that it must be partly fantasy he was thrilled by the whole idea.

This fascination plummeted the night he went to see his brother embark with the Ist Marines at San Diego's Broadway pier for the Guadalcanal campaign. That was a macabre scene: the flood lit shabby pier with a high grey wall on the right, actually the hull of a navy transport; the orderly line of Marines winding up the two stage embarking ladders; the grizzled veterans laughing and smoking while the replacements quiet and pale. And behind the barrier their loved ones unashamedly sobbing.

It increased again, as a Navy Recruit (Not a Marine at family insistence.) at the NTC San Diego where he floated though Boot camp while just beyond the chain link fence his Marine counterparts grunted through seemingly impossible evolutions.

It decreased again through involvement in the medical care of the broken bodies of those who did return at USVAHosp LA.

Then resurfaced in years of medical practice in an area where many senior officers retired and told their stories.

He longed to record the aura for subsequent generations but didn't know how to present it. He finally decided on a comedic format in accord with the fantasy but such that would never distract from reality, (the sobbing Mothers and broken bodies).