The Washington Post, March 19th, 1991
"I was drafted into the United States Marine Corps on the day of my birth, October 26, 1945, and I served the Corps faithfully and proudly for 21 years." So writes Pat Conroy in a moving and deeply troubled memoir of growing up a military brat - the autobiographical matter that he turned into his novel "The Great Santini." Conroy's father was a Marine fighter pilot who fought in three wars, his mother a long-suffering military wife. "I moved more than twenty times and I attended eleven schools in twelve years," he writes. This memoir, which appears in the April Washingtonian, due out next week...
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