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Product Description Lieutenant Robert Forrest joined the Marines because his father was a Marine. His whole life he felt the pull of patriotism rooted in his Marine Corps upbringing. But after the Vietnam war, he doubts the Country he’s sworn to serve. The collapse of the Republic of Vietnam in 1975 confirmed defeat of the U.S. – and the wasted sacrifice of 58,000 American lives. Getting killed for a lost cause in an unnecessary War is Forrest’s greatest fear. In 1983, eight years after Saigon fell, Lieutenant Robert Forrest leads a Marine platoon bound for Beirut. Along the way, the Marines invade Grenada and then move on to Beirut. Can Forrest reconcile his service with his doubts? Will the Marines all make it out alive? Or will Forrest’s worst fears be realized? Set against the backdrop of a post-Vietnam world, Apricots tells the harrowing story of one Lieutenant and his platoon as they fight in Grenada, the last Combat of the Cold War, and then move onto Beirut to fight the first battles in the War on Terror. Review "...a literary winner....Loved the characters, particularly the Gunny...like a lot of Staff NCOs is superficially coarse but with depth of understanding and intelligence....finally, a novel that focuses on amtracs!" / Captain Dale Dye Jr. (U.S.M.C. Ret.) - Actor and military consultant for several films, including Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, and Band of Brothers. About the Author JohnE. Holloway earned a Bachelor ofScience degree in biology from VMI ('81) and was commissioned in the U.S. MarineCorps. While an amtrac platoon leaderwith Second Battalion, Eighth Marines, he participated in the invasion ofGrenada and operations in Beirut, Lebanon.In 1987, he graduated from the George Mason University School of Law(now the Antonin Scalia School of Law), where he was editor-in-chief of the lawreview. After clerking for a federaljudge, he has practiced maritime law in Virginia since 1988. He has been published by The SewaneeReview, the Tulane Maritime Law Journal, the Journal of MaritimeLaw and Commerce, George Mason University Law Review, and he has authored achapter in Benedict on Admiralty.In 1982 he published an illustrated journal of his life at VMI, ToWear the Ring, VMI: Character, Characters, Caricatures.
