Author: jimmorris

Men who put their lives on the line in an unpopular war where death is more likely than not, have complicated motivations. They are not easy to control. And they are impossible to stop.Above and Beyond is the story of Neil Thompson, a third-generation West Pointer whose father and grandfather were killed in the two world wars. Raised without a father, he seeks to reunite with his dad by immersing … immersing himself in combat. It is also the story of the Special Forces Reconnaissance units in Vietnam, units with annual casualty rates that sometimes exceeded 100 percent.Neil’s mentor in…

He was a breeder… but he didn’t know it. He knew only that America was torn by civil disobedience and strife and that his job was to help settle things down. He was a soldier… Clendenning knew that, knew tactics, knew weapons. But he didn’t know what he had been trained for, what he had been born for. If he had gone to the debriefing, things would have been very different. But Clendenning … always did things his own way.more