This is a 15 page book on my experience in Vietnam an on my life preceeding this. I am only including the one part of this book.
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Beginning of this book:
After reflecting on the occurrences of my life, the subject of the War is always there. Back then I was the shining youth of America, come to help a foreign country. One had asked for advisors, but as events turned out, got a lot of men and equipment.
America lost a lot of their equipment, and worst of all a lot of their young men. Death encountered by fighting alone was not the only fatal killer; the ones who did survive "the big one" were mentally, physically, or spiritually affected.
The big H (heroin), coke (cocaine), opium, and the ever popular grass (marijuana) were a large factor in the mental afflictions. Also so far over one hundred and fifty thousand Vietnam Veterans have taken their own lives since returning home, a sad but true statistic.
We have gone through denial, we draw imaginary perimeter lines, and we make bunkers. We want to feel of worth, not worthless. We live in a disposable society, and we are products of this society.
When I left, I left a little of me, my boyish self, the war had made a different man of me, one who God is continually reestablishing. I also left the American pie image of America back there too, although I still believe in my country, and am proud of it, its image of the government system remains tainted. Maybe we all have learned something out of it, I am sure we all hope this.