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Foxy Chives
Foxy Chives
Foxy Chives
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Never say never. After being told he would never go to the Vietnam War, the Vietcong and The North Vietnam did the Tet offensive in late January 1968.
Three days later he was in I Corps shooting howitzers and his Winchester M-14. On the flight over he discovered a training notebook that he had just started in his pocket. While deciding what to do with it the flight crew announced "We are going over the International Date Line, let us all pray you Marines get this day you are now losing, back on your way back home."
I resolved to do a day to day log and omit combat data in the event the enemy got possession of this diary.
I faithfully kept the log and only came up with the subtitle when I wrote this up in the States: A college drop-out documents the 95% of the time that a combat Marine is not engaged in the terror of combat, Foxy Chives was the radio call sign for the training battery at Schools Battalion.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherJ. M. Rooney
Release dateOct 9, 2015
ISBN9781310368059
Foxy Chives
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J. M. Rooney

Born in 1945 in Quantico, Virginia. His father retired to Punta Gorda, Florida in 1956 from the USMC. J.M. Rooney enlisted in the USMC in 1966 after marrying. Was an enlisted artillery instructor in a training battery in Camp Pendleton, California. After being told he would never go to Vietnam, Tet occurred and three days later he was in I Corps shooting howitzers and his Winchester M-14. Never say never. On the flight over to Vietnam he discovered a newly started training notebook. He resolved to keep a day to day log in the event he died and never got back the day lost crossing the International Date Line.His first wife died from cancer in 1993, after giving him three beautiful children. He has three grandchildren and one on the way.He was discharged from the USMC in 1972.Sworn in as a lawyer in 1973. He was the sole and part-time city attorney for Punta Gorda, a Florida Municipal Corporation for fifteen years. He is currently a sole practitioner.He remarried in 1997 and got a bonus daughter in that occurrence. Both of his wives are angels.He is a forty year member of Kiwanis.In answer to the question "What did you do in the war?" he wrote the book Foxy Chives for his children.He has currently two other books available in circulation: The Pennsylvania Rangers and Sneads' Ferry Tales, under his pen name Marvis Parch..Perhaps all the descendants of the very small Pennsylvania militia ranger company in the American Revolutionary War will enjoy my take on what our ancestors did in the war.

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