Over the last fifty years or more, countless books have been written about the Vietnam War.
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..
As a nineteen year old Army helicopter mechanic in a war zone he saw the war from a different prospective.
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.
But John Liberto has a different prospective of the 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.
Over the last fifty years or more, countless books have been written about the Vietnam War