Want to know what Vietnam was really like? 37 stories with 105 photographs.
Hopefully, these books will help correct that narrative..
But that wasn\'t how most of us spent our year.
Unfortunately, what little our kids and grandkids know of the war comes from books that only focus on one soldier, one unit, and one year, or movies like Oliver Stone\'s Platoon and Hamburger Hill, leaving people to think that all we did was crawl through the jungle on the Cambodian border smoking dope.
Whether we were truck drivers, helicopter pilots, infantryman, clerk typists, medics, engineers, MPs, sailors out on Yankee station, artillerymen, or cooks, from 1956 to 1976 from the Delta to the DMZ, these stories tell who we were, the jobs we did, our memories of that time and place, how it changed us, and what we did after we came home.
And there were hundreds of different Wars depending on where you were, the year you were there, your service, branch, unit, rank, job, and race.
As we all knew, Vietnam was all about luck, good or bad.
Some became war heroes, intentional or not, but most of us were just trying to survive.
Some enlisted.
Some of us were drafted.
Whether we were truck drivers, helicopter pilots, infantryman, clerk typists, medics, engineers, MPs, sailors out on Yankee station, artillerymen, or cooks, from 1956 to 1976 from the Delta to the DMZ, these stories tell who we were, the jobs we did, our memories of that time and place, how it changed us, and what we did after we came home.
And there were hundreds of different Wars depending on where you were, the year you were there, your service, branch, unit, rank, job, and race.
As we all knew, Vietnam was all about luck, good or bad.
Some became war heroes, intentional or not, but most of us were just trying to survive.
Some enlisted.
Some of us were drafted.
The Vietnam War dominated my generation and affected so many lives in so many different ways.
Try a few and you won\'t be able to stop.
If you weren\'t, grab a copy and you will, because they\'re like Doritos.
If you were there, you understand.
From the Delta to the DMZ, come walk in their boots.
Like Volumes 1 & 2, these are real stories told by real people, in their own words, men and women, black and white, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard, officers and enlisted, Americans, Australians, and New Zealanders, from 1955 to 1975, caught up in an all too real war.
Want to know what Vietnam was really like? 37 stories with 105 photographs
