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Moon Dash Warrior : The Story of an American Indian in Vietnam, a Marine from the Land of the Lumbee by Delano Cummings
Moon Dash Warrior is a stark and very moving account of Delano Cummings, a young Lumbee Indian from Robeson County, North Carolina, who joined the United States Marines and served three tours in Vietnam. Inspired by patriotism and a single-minded desire to serve his country, Delano chose the difficult but honorable life of a soldier, relying on his childhood training as a Lumbee Indian to track the enemy through unfamiliar and hostile territory.
The story is recounted in a simple, direct manner, with no frills or distractions. The reader accompanies Delano as he stalks the jungles and rice paddies, and shares his grief, terror and anger. Like Delano, we also learn from and come to respect the enemy he confronts everywhere. We are invited to explore a very special place – the mind of a soldier in combat – and we are not disappointed.
Cummings, Delano. Moon Dash Warrior : The Story of an American Indian in Vietnam, a Marine from the Land of the Lumbee
Livermore, Me. : Signal Tree Pub., 1998.
Genre: Autobiography
ISBN: 0965185834
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