America's North Shore Journal

The following was first printed here on September 9, 2003. Lt. Rick Rescorla, Platoon Leader, B Co 2/7 Cav A hero for our time, England and Cornwall’s finest! Lt Rescorla survived that engagement and many others. He had grown up in a village on England’s southwest coast and left at age sixteen to join the British military. He’d fought against Communists in Cyprus and Rhodesia. He then came to America, he said, so that he could enlist in the Army and go to Vietnam. He welcomed the opportunity to join the American cause in Southeast Asia. He worked his way up through the ranks to Sergeant before being commissioned… After fighting in Vietnam, he returned to the United States and used his military benefits to study creative writing at the University of Oklahoma. Literary minded, … Read entire article »