Templeton speaks in the language of Marines on the battlefield, knowing they may die - soon. I was not a soldier. I was against the war pretty much from the beginning, but I always appreciated and supported the guys who were there, on the ground, doing the dirty work. This is not a book about Kissinger, politics and strategy; this is a book about a naive young man, like all of us then, who joined the Marines to defend his country. Boot explains the way they talked every day and how they felt and their pain. It’s about reality setting in for him. If you want to know the down and dirty of war, this book is for you. – Verne Rudebusch, Travel Wrangler