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Father, soldier, son : memoir of a platoon leader in Vietnam by Tripp, Nathaniel, 1944- is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Father, soldier, son : memoir of a platoon leader in Vietnam about?
Nathaniel Tripp grew up fatherless in a house full of women, and he arrived in Vietnam as a just-promoted second lieutenant in the summer of 1968 with no memory of a man's example to guide and sustain him. The father missing from Tripp's life had gone off to war as well, in the navy in World War II, but the terrors were too much for him, he disgraced himself, and after the war ended he could not bring himself to return to his wife and young son. Tripp tells of how he learned as a platoon leader
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- Author
- Tripp, Nathaniel, 1944-
- Publisher
- South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781883642884
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (130 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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