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I appreciate your kind comments.

Well gunny, today I finished your book and I want to thank you for writing it. When I read about you guys who have waged war, I think too, as you wrote, it is a crazy world.

Thank you for you comments. I appreciate that you are reading it.

I am now at page 173 and really feel that I am getting a taste of your life and of other Marines.
Have read several books about Nam but non better than this. It's also neat to know that I am among the few who has read it so far.

Hey Gunny: Just added you to my group and will begin reading your subhmissions. When I saw your handle I immediately knew you would love my book. It is about the USMC during the Korean War. I just put it on sale and hope you will enjoy it. Check it out - Semper Fi - Ray

Wow!

Janice! Thank you so much for such a powerful review. I didn't think anyone would care to read my story or even notice it.

What a quote!
From Roger Sanchez- "No one knew, whether they would be alive the next day. But we would find time to laugh, to cry, to contemplate. We would learn much about ourselves, in this foreign land called Vietnam.”

A strong, poignant, accounting- from a kid to a man in a short time –this is my summary. Roger Sandchez’s Black Dragon Red Sun captures the soul of a man in war. It reminds us all of wars fought, lives given, and souls many times lost. War – where how to stay alive was the number one lesson you didn’t want to fail. I could smell the times of this man’s days and once again it caused me to reflect on the cost of war. Sandchez’s takes us from the time he was a kid, a rookie in the Marines through the scars of war and to a hint of his today. I was easily drawn in with the boy joining the Marines and his boot camp – poster motto THE MARINE CORP BUILDS MEN. His log account straight forward is filled with every human emotion. - including humor in the middle of war. Bubble Gum Platoon to staring death in the face, guts and more. I learned more about war lingo than ever before. I was captured by so many entries that hit my heart –a few - saving his sergeants ass, his short but heartfelt encounter with his brother, descriptive accounts of Vietnam landscape, “ farmers caught in machinery of war,” the “sting of the wire razor cut into my legs.” The little Vietnamese orphan called Garbage Gut, and his description of men coming back from war lines – “empty stares coupled with a do no screw with me attitude “just a taste of Sanchez’s Black Dragon Red Sun. I encourage all to read it. It reads fast, or you can linger with each emotion it brings. Thank you Roger Sanchez.