A STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL

About the Book

Jack Wagner is a 17-year-old Texas boy who wants to join the Marines. He is from a Marine family. His grandfather, uncle and father were all highly-decorated Marines, who fought in World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. When his father was killed in Vietnam, Jack resolves to become a Marine himself, needing to understand what his father had thought and experienced and to complete the work that he started before his death in the Central Highlands. This remarkable story follows the careers of three generations of the Wagner family, from Belleau Woods, to Iwo Jima, to the landing at Incheon to the brutal battles in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Young Jack Wagner not only adds to the military accomplishments of the Marines in his family; he exceeds them all.

About the Author

This story, A Struggle For Survival, belongs to Jack Gibson, my grandson. Jack is now in the sixth grade at Bear Creek Internediate School in Keller, Texas. Two years ago he asked me to help him write a novel and I asked him if he had a story. This is Jack’s story, including the title. He agreed to write his story in his own words and I would turn that story into a novel. We agreed to publish both of our writings in a joint venture. Jack Dold is the author of more than fifteen books, most of them published by Author House and most of them novels. A Struggle For Survival is a story told to him by his grandson, Jack Gibson, which “Poppy” Jack promised to turn into a novel. The story is far too good not to be told.