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    [year] => 2003
    [artist] => Richard Taylor
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    [titleId] => 13315764
    [isbn] => 9781935149958
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    [language] => ENGLISH
    [profanity] => 
    [title] => Prodigals
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    [pages] => 331
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    [synopsis] => During his first tour in Vietnam - 1967-68 - Dick Taylor was a well trained and highly motivated amateur assigned to advise a hard-bitten ARVN infantry battalion working in the mud and streams of IV Corps. He became savvy in a hurry and found that he was both brave and resourceful. He barely survived Tet 1968, then served on an advisory team staff. 

For the next two years, Taylor earned a Ranger tab, served on a division staff, and schooled on. He met his wife, and married her days before he returned to Vietnam. 

Taylor's second tour - 1970-71 - was altogether different. He immediately assumed command of Bravo Company, 1/7 Cav, and excelled as a commander and a leader. He was aggressive in the field, confident in his command, and assertive with his superiors. He fought a good war, a successful war, and when he was forced to take a staff job it was as his battalion's intelligence officer. But the war was winding down, its purpose lost. Taylor's spirit's flagged, but not his fidelity. 

This well-written combat memoir is heartfelt, earnest, honest and just a little melancholy.
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    [subtitle] => A Vietnam Story
    [publisher] => Casemate
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