Author: Rod Leger
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 146696491X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
When author Rod Leger got drafted in the middle of 1966, he was in his freshman year of college. The next few years transformed his life. In this memoir, he recalls his feelings as a college student in the period leading up to the war. At the time, he never considered that the war might not be the best idea. After all, if the country was drafting young men to fight and die overseas, then it must have been right. He enlisted in the US Navy’s American Seabees, and because he completed a year of college, he was designated as a “striker” and trained as a builder. Although he spent some time in the States, he was destined to go overseas to Vietnam, where he served two tours of duty. As a member of the Seabees, he helped bring free medical care to outlying villages. The Seabees built permanent clinics, constructed roads, improved or installed infrastructure, provided clean water wells, and improved the quality of life for many Vietnamese citizens. The members of Leger’s squad also made it a personal mission to help an area orphanage. In A Tramp’s Tour, Leger shares the story of his Vietnam experience and of how the Seabees lived up to their motto: “We build for the fighters, we fight for the builders.”
A TRAMP'S TOUR
Author: Rod Leger
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 146696491X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
When author Rod Leger got drafted in the middle of 1966, he was in his freshman year of college. The next few years transformed his life. In this memoir, he recalls his feelings as a college student in the period leading up to the war. At the time, he never considered that the war might not be the best idea. After all, if the country was drafting young men to fight and die overseas, then it must have been right. He enlisted in the US Navy’s American Seabees, and because he completed a year of college, he was designated as a “striker” and trained as a builder. Although he spent some time in the States, he was destined to go overseas to Vietnam, where he served two tours of duty. As a member of the Seabees, he helped bring free medical care to outlying villages. The Seabees built permanent clinics, constructed roads, improved or installed infrastructure, provided clean water wells, and improved the quality of life for many Vietnamese citizens. The members of Leger’s squad also made it a personal mission to help an area orphanage. In A Tramp’s Tour, Leger shares the story of his Vietnam experience and of how the Seabees lived up to their motto: “We build for the fighters, we fight for the builders.”
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 146696491X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
When author Rod Leger got drafted in the middle of 1966, he was in his freshman year of college. The next few years transformed his life. In this memoir, he recalls his feelings as a college student in the period leading up to the war. At the time, he never considered that the war might not be the best idea. After all, if the country was drafting young men to fight and die overseas, then it must have been right. He enlisted in the US Navy’s American Seabees, and because he completed a year of college, he was designated as a “striker” and trained as a builder. Although he spent some time in the States, he was destined to go overseas to Vietnam, where he served two tours of duty. As a member of the Seabees, he helped bring free medical care to outlying villages. The Seabees built permanent clinics, constructed roads, improved or installed infrastructure, provided clean water wells, and improved the quality of life for many Vietnamese citizens. The members of Leger’s squad also made it a personal mission to help an area orphanage. In A Tramp’s Tour, Leger shares the story of his Vietnam experience and of how the Seabees lived up to their motto: “We build for the fighters, we fight for the builders.”
A Tramp Trip
Author: Lee Meriwether
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Outing and the Wheelman
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Outing
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Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Outing Magazine
Author: Poultney Bigelow
Publisher:
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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A Tramp Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Successor to Twain's first collection of travel memoirs takes a second look at Europe. In "A Tramp Abroad," Twain's abundant humor waxes as freely as ever; this time, however, his amusement bears a more cynical cast, as he regards the grand tourist sights of Innocents through his now older and more experienced eyes.
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Successor to Twain's first collection of travel memoirs takes a second look at Europe. In "A Tramp Abroad," Twain's abundant humor waxes as freely as ever; this time, however, his amusement bears a more cynical cast, as he regards the grand tourist sights of Innocents through his now older and more experienced eyes.
A Tramp Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613100531
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613100531
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Outing Magazine
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Sports
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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A Tramp's Wallet
Author: Sam Pickering
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 0881462357
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In A Tramp's Wallet, Sam Pickering spends six months roaming Australia and New Zealand, tramping landscapes pocked by sheep stations, art galleries and bakeries, and always libraries, their dusty shelves troves quick with life and literature. The saunterings of one of America's best and most popular essayists stretch the seams of A Tramp's Wallet. Far from the hoes and saws that prune days into convention, life flourishes, and this book is weedy and rankly rich with thought and description. "Lord," St. Odo of Cluny said on his deathbed, "I have loved the beauty of thy house." Pickering records his love of that house, and, if truth must out, his love for a few neglected out buildings-barns and backhouses, even the ramshackled huts of thought.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 0881462357
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In A Tramp's Wallet, Sam Pickering spends six months roaming Australia and New Zealand, tramping landscapes pocked by sheep stations, art galleries and bakeries, and always libraries, their dusty shelves troves quick with life and literature. The saunterings of one of America's best and most popular essayists stretch the seams of A Tramp's Wallet. Far from the hoes and saws that prune days into convention, life flourishes, and this book is weedy and rankly rich with thought and description. "Lord," St. Odo of Cluny said on his deathbed, "I have loved the beauty of thy house." Pickering records his love of that house, and, if truth must out, his love for a few neglected out buildings-barns and backhouses, even the ramshackled huts of thought.
Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos
Author: Owen Clayton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009348035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around the terms 'hobo', 'tramp', and 'vagabond'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009348035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around the terms 'hobo', 'tramp', and 'vagabond'.