Book Excerpt: Semper Cool by Barry Fixler

Title: Semper Cool

Author: Barry Fixler

Genre: Memoir

Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: Exalt Press; First edition (December 1, 2010)

Language: English

ISBN-0982518404

ISBN-978-0982518403

Semper Cool is the wrenching, sometimes hilarious and always thought-provoking true story of well-off Long Island teenager who enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps seeking adventure and his father's approval and finds both, plus more danger than he ever could have imagined.

Barry Fixler gets molded i...