A review by shannonmde
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge

I’m going to be dead within minutes in this little nothing battle in Vietnam that’s not going to change the course of the war, he thought. The valiant, critical battles of World War II flashed through his mind. This is not like Normandy, or Stalingrad,he thought. This is just a skirmish. Scruggs felt furious he was going to bleed to death next to a tree in Vietnam. — 102