Summary

     The book "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers, is a book about a young man named Richie Perry. Perry joined the military at age 17 and was very happy to be away from home. Perry met a lot of soldiers that would soon be at his side until death which was very important in the military and still is. The soldiers were each sent out to go on patrols and watch over the areas for VC or Vietcong. During this book a lot of events had taken place like how one of Perry's friends stepped on a mine and blew up which affected him a lot for a while. One day while in Vietnam the soldiers were sent on a very bad mission and didn't recover from it too well because a badly planned attack. This book was mainly about the battle in Vietnam in the authors way and this book resembles a lot of soldiers who had fought in Vietnam war.
     Before all of these things had happened he met a lot of soldiers who were on his squad. one of their names were Jamal. he was a medic who was assigned to them. Perry got along quite well and wondered what the medic was thinking about. Perry always had thoughts of what people thought about which told you that he was a big time thinker. Later in the book the whole squad was going through a lot of battles and casualties which made them weaker but they couldn't ever give up.
     Although there was a lot of events and things that had happened, they were very brave throughout every problem that they had faced and every objective that they had to overcome they would no matter how hard it is. The soldiers stood tall and gave everything their all which was a lot of help towards them.