Hell Yes! Chesty Puller Biography is Available on Kindle!

[cinco]

Fricken stoked!

I love this story of the true warrior.

http://www.amazon.com/Marine-Chesty-Puller-Burke-Davis/dp/0553271822/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460936140&sr=8-1&keywords=chesty+puller

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Loaned my hard copy book - of coarse, never got it back.

Chesty is the definition of an American Warrior.

His son's Viet Nam experience is something different though - and another topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesty_Puller


Puller is the most decorated Marine in American history. He is one of two U.S. servicemen to be awarded five Navy Crosses and, with the Distinguished Service Cross awarded to him by the U.S. Army, he is the only person to have received six of the nation's second-highest military awards for valor.

Puller retired from the Marine Corps with 37 years service in 1955 and lived in Virginia.


BAD ASS.

[Ernst]

Since you brought him, Larry Puller served with great distinction and unlike his father suffered horrible personal injury in Vietnam, which impacted the rest of his life:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Burwell_Puller,_Jr.


In my opinion, Larry Puller was every bit the hero and man as his father.

His biography, "Fortunate Son" won a Pulitzer prize.

[lowprone]

In mine also.
Horrible injuries change more inside then outwardly, and it takes exception moral
courage and unshakeable faith to overcome them, if at all possible.

[Averageman]

And a distant cousin of George Patton.

[cinco]

Since you brought him, Larry Puller served with great distinction and unlike his father suffered horrible personal injury in Vietnam, which impacted the rest of his life:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Burwell_Puller,_Jr.


In my opinion, Larry Puller was every bit the hero and man as his father.

His biography, "Fortunate Son" won a Pulitzer prize.


In mine also.
Horrible injuries change more inside then outwardly, and it takes exception moral
courage and unshakeable faith to overcome them, if at all possible.

I think you both misinterpreted my statement about his son. I simply stated his story was drastically different - a sad end to a short military career. No disrespect was intended. His story is also quite a testament to the Puller grit. And yes, I read his book too.