David & Lee Roy: A Vietnam Story

by David L. Nelson, Randolph B. Schiffer, David L. Nelson

Book Overview

They were little more than boys in the turbulent 1960s when Lee Roy Herron and his high school buddy, David Nelson, signed up for Marine Corps officer training. Decisions during college took the pair in different directions--Lee Roy to the infantry, language school, and the cauldron of Vietnam, David to law school, the JAG office, and eventually to Okinawa. When Lt. Lee Roy Herron was killed on the front lines in February 1969, only two months into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896726940
• ISBN13: 9780896726949
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"