BROTHERS IN BATTLE: THE SILENT SACRIFICE OF WAR

I want to thank you for the success of Vietnam Uncensored on Amazon. The sales keep growing, and the reviews touch me deeply. I’m glad the stories resonate, and the readers understand what we went through and learn something about the price we paid. To those who’ve read and supported the book, I thank you.

Survival in Vietnam was simple. We had to accept we were already dead men walking. It wasn’t a theory. It wasn’t something we thought about. It was just the truth. We knew it in our bones, and the sooner we accepted it, the sooner we stopped acting like scared boys and became soldiers. That’s how we changed. Not kids dreaming of going home. We were soldiers. The sooner we shut out fear and weakness, the better our chance of survival.

But something happened when we accepted that fact. Something none of us could prepare for. We started to lose parts of ourselves. The parts that made us human. We didn’t want to lose them. We didn’t want to stop caring. We didn’t want to stop feeling. We didn’t want to lose our ability to show mercy, compassion, or regret. But that was the cost of war. It takes what it takes, and you don’t know what you’ll lose until it’s gone.

We thought we could control it. That we could choose what to keep and what to let go of. In the end, it wasn’t a choice. It became the only way we could…