Description10 and a Silver Star...
Upon awarding the Silver Star, the company commander: "I wanted to get this decoration into your hands just as soon as possible; while you\'re st.
Is it a lucky piece or a jinx? Who really earned it?Surrounded by weirdo characters in Vietnam, they become even more outlandish in civilian life.
He buys houses and country club membership, never sure about the Silver Star.
With no job he finances a car; with no corporate experience he stumbles to the top of his dad-in-law\'s chain of Mexican restaurants, pilots a plane and performs his way through life in a Walter Mitty daydream.
He muddles through the American Dream because his Sardonic attitude views that dream as one big long joke.
That attitude wins him a bride and a father-in-law who thinks he can do no wrong because he got a Silver Star. individual PTSD afflictions, each different, but Bruce\'s attitude weaves a lasting humorous tale of a civilian ambushed by war.
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He\'s just one of 500, 000 U.
PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) spins into a dazzlingly humorous montage of survival over decades of recurring flashbacks.
It\'s not even his.
It\'s never over for the young man who came home with a Sardonic \'attitude\' and a Silver Star for valor.
He lives another day, one day at a time, for 13 endless months.
A tough fatherly sergeant orders him to lie low in filthy muck as gunships rip into ambushing enemies.
A haunted life laughed at.
He dresses it up with outlandish humor as an antidote to PTSD.
His life is devoured by terror.
He ventures into the essence of an old combat adage: War is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
An unworldly young man volunteers to be drafted early.
No one can laugh off the incredibly cruel Vietnam War, but Bruce Johnson\'s Sardonic antidote to the plague of PTSD helps recover the truth - if you don\'t laugh, you\'ll cry.
A Sardonic Saga of PTSDJust as WWII gave us Catch 22 and Korea produced MASH, Vietnam delivers 10 Cents and a Silver Star.
Description10 and a Silver Star..
