Following the Memorial Day Ceremony at Freedom Park in Edwards, The Bookworm will host Jack McLean, author of Loon: A Marine Story.
This event is FREE and open to the public. Appetizers will be provided courtesy of the Freedom Park Memorial Committee.
The third of four children, Jack McLean was born in Huntington, New York, on May 26, 1947. After graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover, McLean enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and then served in Vietnam with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. McLean returned to enter Harvard University in the fall of 1968 as the college’s first Vietnam veteran. His memoir, Loon: A Marine Story, is a soldier's coming of age story, told with honesty and insight into one of the most tumultuous times in our history.
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