My Name is America: The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty; United States Marine Corp
By: Ellen Emerson White
Pages: 177
Genre: Historical Fiction; Vietnam War
Setting: The Vietnam War Hill 881N
The story of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, was a perfect follow up to War Is… Mighty Mouse as he fellow marines called him entered the Marines to follow in the footsteps of his father and his father’s father and so on. He also did it so that he could get college paid for. As we watch the transformation happen we see a child turn into a man. You see a child that is actually wishing for a fight begin to beg for the fight to end. You watch as the friendship grows between him and Bebop his bunkmate. He learns that there is more to life than football and cute girls.
I grew up reading the Dear America series, I love it. I still do. I love feeling like I am a part of the journey that each of the character takes. I felt the same sadness the they felt as they lost someone close or the fear when they were is situations that pulled them further and further from their dreams.
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