If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need
by Colonel Jack Jacobs (retired), Douglas Century
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Author: Colonel Jack Jacobs (retired), Douglas CenturyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2008-10-07
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
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Summary: 5 Stars
Don't read this book unless you can interrupt your spouse constantly to read her passages every couple pages. Don't read this book if your looking for strictly a war story, read We were Soldiers Once and Young instead. Read this if you want an enjoyable, intellectal account and opinions of a true americian hero, covering the time period from the early 1950's upto the present time. Thank you Colonel for sharing and thank you for your service. PS I'm really greatful that B.Williams and T.Brokaw had no input. I can't stand either one of them.
Summary of If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need
A Medal of Honor recipient looks back at his own service?and ahead to America?s future.Jack Jacobs was acting as an advisor to the South Vietnamese when he and his men came under devastating attack. Severely wounded, 1st Lt. Jacobs took command and withdrew the unit, returning again and again to the site of the attack to rescue more men, saving the lives of a U.S. advisor and thirteen Allied soldiers. Col. Jacobs received the nation?s highest military award, the Medal of Honor.
Here, with candor, humor, and quiet modesty, Col. Jack Jacobs tells his stirring story of heroism, honor, and the personal code by which he has lived his life, and expounds with blunt honesty and insight his views on our contemporary world, and the nature and necessity of sacrifice.
If Not Now, When? is a compelling account of a unique life at both war and peace, and the all-too-often unexamined role of the citizenry in the service and defense of the Republic.
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