A Hellish Place of Angels by Daryl J Eigen

A Hellish Place of Angels by Daryl J Eigen

Eighteen-year-old Daryl J. Eigen joined the US Marines to become a man. He quickly discovered he was just another boy on the ground as he fought in the Vietnam War with the Marine Corps' 3/26 and 2/9 infantry battalions in the Third Marine Division.

In this memoir, Eigen gives voice to his and his fellow veterans' experiences of the Vietnam War that culminated in September of 1967 in the brutal battle of Con Thien. Through letters written home, blended with published media and real experiences, A Hellish Place of Angels provides an in-depth and riveting insight into war and documents a spiritual journey that took one tour of duty to experience and forty-five years to understand.

Praise for A Hellish Place of Angels

The author employed a unique approach in this riveting memoir, sharing his personal letters home to his family, then comparing what he wrote in those letters home with the horrors of combat that he recalled experiencing, as well as articles published in various publications describing those battles. This brutally honest and realistic portrayal of combat Marines in Vietnam should be required reading in every academic institution's American history class.

-James P. Coan, author of Con Thien: The Hill of Angels

Dr. Daryl Eigen's life really is a true story-the story of a young American who enlisted in the Marines and paid a heavy price in body, mind, and spirit for his intelligence, courage, and convictions.

-Mark Brady, PhD, author of The Wisdom of Listening

Daryl J. Eigen served in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967 and was wounded in combat more than once. Daryl earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. and an M.A. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA. He worked as a Member and Supervisor of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and held executive positions in several high tech firms in the networking and communications field. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and contributed a number of key developments including one of the first, if not the first, software simulations of an artificial neural network under special grants in 1970 to 1973. He led the introduction of speech recognition in the telephone network by using a machine recognition of 1 and O for collect call acceptance. He did early work on Cluster Analysis for NASA and on Big Data for The Bell System. More Importantly Daryl has a beautiful wife, a son and daughter and a 5 grand children. Daryl lives with his wife near Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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ISBN 13	9781475932126
ISBN 10	147593212X
Title	A Hellish Place of Angels
Author	Daryl J Eigen
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	iUniverse
Year published	2012-06-27
Number of pages	222
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