Friendship In Chris Lynch's Pledge Allegiance

“If friendship has an opposite, it’s war.”(183) Vietnam; Pledge Allegiance, by Chris Lynch is an action packed, death craving, full-of-friendships type of book. It is historical fiction, and I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for an awesome war book. This book depicts from the Vietnam War about four friends who decide to join, and right now, it is Morris’ perspective. This is society vs. society, human vs. human. This is taking place right now in the town of Boston where four regular people become the bestest of friends. Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck made a pledge that if one goes to the Vietnam War, they all go. Rudi who got held back and is older than the others is sent a letter saying that he he was drafted into the war. Rudi
Together they win the small battle but take a lot of damage to ships and the amount of men there are, and even a helicopter is taken down, but don’t worry, Beck is alright. All men were reported to walk through the battle field and find any missing men and/or clean up debris. Morris takes this chance to call everyone and see how they are doing, when all of a sudden a single shot rings through the air and after there is a thump then a splash and someone yelling MOSES!, Morris thinks and knows that this is war, and that he has some calls to
Let's just get this clear, I love war books, I love history in general. This made an easy depiction of what the Vietnam War was like. It was easy to read, and it wasn’t even confusing. My least favorite part of this whole book is that before Morris and Moses got in that huge battle in the delta, Moses showed Morris a picture of his baby back at home. When the battle was over and they were picking up debris, Moses all of a sudden got shot by a sniper. This made me so mad because now his son will never get to see his dad and Moses will never get to see his son but with the only one picture he has of him. I wanted to throw my book at the wall.This book was brutal, I have to be honest,”I cut off almost his whole head. I did that. Me. I never could have done that back home, that's for sure."(167) It was full of friendships, full of deaths, and full of fighting. The ending was ok, I say this only because it’s a series and every book is from the perspective of either Ivan, Beck, Morris, or Rudi. I think it could've ended a little better. It ended with Moses death, which again, made me very mad. It was very predictable, one friend always dies in a war movie of book. The theme for this book is also the last sentence of the book which is, “if friendship has an opposite, it’s