By Andrew Wiest
Vietnam: A View from the Frontline strains the yankee event of Vietnam from the war's well known inception to its morale-crushing and sour end. Vietnam includes a grunt's-eye view of the clash - from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the important Highlands, to the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the DMZ. Like Karl Marlantes' groundbreaking novel 2010, Mattherhorn, this ebook will switch the best way we predict approximately Vietnam. informed in uncompromising, no-holds barred language of the warriors themselves, the tales contained inside this ebook aspect every little thing from heroism to fragging, from helicopters hitting the LZs to rampant drug use. it's a actual and grippingly actual portrait of the yank struggle in Vietnam in the course of the eyes of the boys and girls who fought in that far-off land whereas a couple of are drawn from medics, corpsmen, nurses and widows. The e-book relies on wealthy collections housed on the nationwide Archive, the guts of army background, and on the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech.
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So when they finally started letting you out, guys would start drinking beer. These were guys from all over Fort Riley, not just our company. com Drop And Give Me 20 on television. I remember that a couple of us who were down there from my platoon kind of grabbing each other and making sure that we got the heck out of there. We all ended up in the girls’ bathroom and ended up jumping out the windows of the bathroom. One of the girls who was there to perform was there too, and we helped her get out.
He looked at them and said, “You ain’t going to do nothing to these boys. I’ve been waiting for someone to escape from that place. That is what we are training them for! ” So he patted us on the backs and said good job, and that was the end of that deal. I told Lieutenant Colonel Tutwiler that if anybody ever captured me in Vietnam they had better kill me, ’cause I ain’t never being locked up again. One day Henry Burleson threw a cigarette on the ground, and Lieutenant Black saw him. ” So they made Burleson dig a hole 2 feet wide, 3 feet long, and as deep as he could dig it.
My daddy hadn’t, but all of my uncles had. I figured this was something you do. It was part of your responsibilities. And they had told me about all of these foreign places and foreign people and all that. And to me it was a grand adventure. ” And I thought well, good, maybe I can get drafted, and a few months later I did. I loved it. I faced it as a big adventure, and I thought it was a good deal all the way around. Excited about the military, I really didn’t know I was going to go to Vietnam.