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Author: Lee Basnar Publisher: Booklocker.com ISBN: 9781591135128 Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Languages : en Pages : 0
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A seasoned journalist who rose through the ranks presents an infantry company commander's insight into his soldiers' daily struggle to survive. His vivid prose explains why his brave "grunts" are still haunted by the experience and lack of public respect.
Author: Brice H. Barnes Publisher: ISBN: 9781478730132 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 258
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Drawing on his experiences from two tours in Vietnam, Brice H. Barnes has compiled a remarkable assortment of vignettes or very short stories, ranging all the way from the joys of getting gifts from the "church ladies" to helping to steal a peanut mill! With emphasis on the value of teamwork, these stories detail the finding of the largest weapons and arms cache in the entire war to committing several grand larcenies, as told by a highly decorated combat veteran. In a fitting tribute to the men who lived and fought with Barnes, these vignettes are dedicated to a variety of men who were major contributors to the successes that Barnes experienced, with a deep sense of gratitude that is expressed at the end of each vignette. The personal miracle that Barnes experienced during the Tet Counter-Offensive became the basis for his deep involvement with the Kairos Prison Ministry. Not surprisingly, Barnes offers thanks to his God for the multitude of blessings he has received during his military career and beyond, and hopes that this book will contribute to a better understanding of the ultimate goal of our mission in Vietnam and the healing of old wounds, both physical and mental.
Author: A.D Moore Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 9781477272466 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 202
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Vignettes of Vietnam & Other Colorful Stories is a nostalgic collage of short stories, fermented and lingering, some for years, waiting on a venue to finally emerge. Hopefully, that time is now! Vignettes of Vietnam chronicles a young soldier’s experiences during his year’s tour of duty in the war-torn country and the discovery, while on an ambush patrol, of horrific photographs of GI comrades, captured, tortured and mutilated; the discovery of his Homie, butchered during an overnight LPR (Long Range Patrol), and his own subsequent escape, using arboreal survival strategies. The Excremenator provides insight into the violent life of young Anthony Morris. Born in the ‘hood’ (Chicago), he is a victim of the vicious street gang culture that results in the senseless death of his beautiful and beloved, Janet. Tired of the meaningless violence, he welcomes military conscription as a viable means of escape and redemption. But sent to ‘Nam, he’s forced to confront the reality of the correlation—urban (street gang affiliation), versus Jungle (military warfare), which proves instrumental in the determination of his outlook on life, as well as and his nasty name! The Night the Cow Got in Zion Franklin, Unforgettable Fang Grey, Snake Dancing, “A Tree. . . So Far! are comical (hopefully, colorful) highlights of an era long past.
Author: John Philip Liberto Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 9781662870873 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Over the last fifty years or more, countless books have been written about the Vietnam War. The vast majority are about the daily experiences of the combat soldiers, marines and fighter pilots; strategies of the hard fought battles; heroes of the war who gave their lives to save others; etc, etc. But John Liberto has a different prospective of the war. It's been estimated that for every solider fighting the enemy there are forty to fifty military personnel backing him up; pilots, medics ( doctors and nurses ), office personnel, truck drivers, equipment mechanics, supply clerks, cooks; the list goes on and on. As a nineteen year old Army helicopter mechanic in a war zone he saw the war from a different prospective. He doesn't have a continuous war story to tell but this book contains seventeen different short stories about some of his experiences in the Army, most of them from his year in Vietnam.
Author: L. Adrien Hannus Publisher: ISBN: 9780578708935 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A VC Water Buffalo: Vignettes from Vietnam is a collection of the memories and personal accounts of L. Adrien Hannus. It chronicles a series of events that transpired during his tour of duty during the Vietnam War. Hannus's service during the war lasted from July 19, 1967 to July 16, 1968. During this time, numerous events from the terrible, to the bizarre, to the unthinkable were forever etched into his mind. From firefights and giant rats to water buffalo attacks and the Tet Offensive, Hannus immerses the reader in the day-to-day fight for survival that characterized his time in Vietnam.
Author: Joshua Samuel Brown Publisher: ThingsAsian Press ISBN: 9780971594081 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 176
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When Joshua Samuel Brown first stepped out of the passenger terminal at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, he was a stranger in a humid land with insufficient funds, zero job prospects and an over-packed suitcase. Like much else in his life up to that point, his decision to move to Taiwan was based largely on random occurrence and cosmic coincidence. He was twenty-four years old, thousands of miles away from home, and at that moment the happiest man alive. This anthology of short stories, travel essays, photographs, random meditations, and political meanderings grew out of his years on the island formerly known as Formosa.