The Last Parade: An American War Story

This compelling book recently sparked an investigation by the USMC Inspector Generals office that resulted in a renewal of a fifty year cover up of a war crime. But,this time the cover up was exposed by US News & World Report in a major story written November 3, 2003.

The real story in this book is about the struggle of the protagonist to fulfil his duty to fight the enemy and an equally compelling duty to uphold human values.The story is propelled on the combat scenes which continue uninterrupted while the real story, the thing that makes this book so compelling, is laced between the scenes like a fine silk thread that ties the whole thing together.Simultaneously with the combat action he suffers the treachery of his battalion commander working through a Navy Medical doctor to have the protagonist judged mentally ill. He is committed, transported to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda Maryland, gets off a plane and is met by four Navy Corpsmen who force him into in a straight jacket. The sole purpose being to keep him quiet about the war crime. He is then forced to take insulin shock treatments designed to erase his memory.