4 Ergebnisse.

September 1968. Dai La Pass. We are out of the bush conducting a memorial ceremony, standing at attention in formation. My mind is hollering, "what a bunch of bull shit!" I lift my eyes to scream silently, "F..k you, God, I don't like your rules, I won't play your game, I will never feel love again..."So begins chapter one of this first-person memoir of ten Vietnam veterans. Each chapter is one Marine's story. Each will reveal something profou...

Fifty years after he served in Vietnam as an advisor to the Vietnamese Marine Corps, Marine Colonel Robert Fischer, a former lecturer on "Strategy and Tactics of the Insurgent" at the Naval War College, has "shot an azimuth" (set a compass course). He has compiled a collection of written works by selected Vietnam veterans. Their roles varied during the Vietnam War. Yet these men's reflections, taken from the full range of their experiences, ar...

This is not intended to be a religious book even though I do discuss my own personal beliefs in several parts. But, since Limbo is the environment I find myself in, the subject of God, my Lord, and the basic framework of my Catholic faith is discussed when they seem pertinent. I truly hope I can share much more since Limbo becomes a place of great wonderment, but it is definitely not Heaven. Here I discover that my mind can expand exponentiall...

Since World War I, America not only trained for the last war it fought, but also forgot or ignored the lessons of the past. We saw our enemy, attacked them, and then destroyed them. But this did not work in Vietnam, nor would it work in Iraq and Afghanistan where we didn't recognize our enemy, who reverted to guerrilla or insurgent tactics and techniques. While they shifted the gears of war, from conventional to unconventional and back, we sti...