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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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