[Telecharger] (Baekur) Eye of the Tiger: Memoir of a United States
Marine (Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam)
By John Edmund Delezen
"We live together under the thick canopy, eachsearching for the other; the same
leeches and mosquitoes that feed onour blood feed on his blood." John Edmund
Delezen felt a kinshipwith the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were
all atthe mercy of the land. His memoir begins when he enlisted in theMarine Corps
and was sent to Vietnam in March of 1967. He volunteeredfor the Third Force Recon
Company, whose job it was to locate andinfiltrate enemy lines undetected and map
their locations and learndetails of their status. The duty was often painful both
physicallyand mentally. He was stricken with malaria in November of 1967,wounded
by a grenade in February of 1968 and hit by a bullet laterthat summer. He remained
in Vietnam until December, 1968.Delezen writes of Vietnam as a man humbled by a
mysterious country and horrified by acts of brutality. The land was his enemy as
much as the Vietnamese soldiers. He vividly describes the three-canopy jungle with
birds and monkeys
