No Better Way to Die Author:Johnnie Clark PART HERO, PART LEGEND, ALL MARINE — Gunnery Sergeant Jessie Slate knew in his heart that there was no better way to die, than to die a Marine. He battled his way through China and then Korea, fighting on Bloody Ridge and in the frozen wholesale slaughter of the Chosin Reservoir. — Though once he left the service for the sake of his wife and son, ... more »the lure of the Corps--and the wiles of his Navajo Marine buddy Broken Wing--proved irresistible, and Slate reenlisted for Vietnam. There, in the brutal jungles of Arizona Territory, he fought his finest hour and proved that it took more than guns to be a Marine....« less