No book. I just like to do research. It keeps me awake on those long drives to work. Besides, someone has to speak for the "old" Marines who gave their all. Speaking of old Marines, If you check the Muster Rolls, you will see that most of the "Old Salts" died on the 6th of June. It was the fresh young Marines who won that battle in the end, and the subsequent battles were won by lowly replacements. A Marine is a Marine, and once a Marine, always a Marine.

Besides, I was trying to understand the internal forces that would convince men to walk, not run, across 600 yards of open field in the face of dozens of blazing interlocking machine guns. I have decided it was E'sprit de Corps.

Semper Fi,
Jim