Distant Valor
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ISBN: 0312859414 / Publisher: Forge, November 1996
United States Marine Corps soldiers, sent to help end the war in Lebanon, find themselves questioning their trust in the military and faith in themselves in the wake of the Beirut barracks bombing
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For Sergeant David Griffin, a "peace-time" Marine, Beirut was the chance to prove himself capable to the generation of Marines who had been blooded in the Vietnam War. For Corporal Steven Downs, Beirut was a struggle to separate the civilian from the soldier, his distrust of the politicians' decisions from the military mission. For all of the Marines serving in Lebanon, it was another war in a foreign country where the enemy could be anywhere or anyone.Faced with Griffin's court-martial for engaging the enemy against orders, these two young men find themselves questioning their faith in themselves, their commanders, and eventually that which above all else they must have faith in, the Corps.
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