One of the responsibilities of a Marine Corps recruiter during the Vietnam War era was to inform the families of fallen soldiers.

One such "Angel of Death" was Harry Spiller. Now an author and criminal justice professor at John A. Logan Community College in Carterville, Ill., Spiller lived through the unenviable experience of recruiting high school kids in Southeast Missouri to join the Marines....and many times tell their families they had died in battle.

Spiller wrote a book about the experience entitled Vietnam: Angel of Death.

He spoke with SEPR's Jacob McCleland.

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