Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels

Walter Dean Myers

Fallen Angels was a great book. Some characters are Richie Perry Kenny Perry, Richies Mom, Harold “Peewee” Gates, Richie’s friend. Lobel and Monaco were two soldiers Richie was friends with. Captain Stewart and Sergeant Simpson were the two best officers around. Lieutenant Carroll, Lieutenant Gearhart, Corporal Brunner and Sergeant Dongan were his commanding officers. Judy Duncan was a nurse who Richie liked on the plane ride over to Vietnam. In Vietnam Richie experienced many diseases and a few wounds. Most of the men on his team died in the first couple of weeks, but the few who made it through the roughest part of the war Rich got to know the best. Peewee and Rich always had each others backs and when it came to battle and one needed help the other would risk his life to save the others. Lieutenant Carroll is a great example of that he was shot while calling in a medical helicopter and shot a red flare to where he was signaling the helicopter and also the Vietnamese soldiers. This book had a lot of graphic violence and language so I would rate it a 7. If this is really what war is like i hope no one I know ever has to go to war.