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Insights into Vietnam Uncensored

When I set out to write Vietnam Uncensored, describing the grotesque war experiences became impossible. I started with many pieces, but completing them became impossible. Was I writing a memoir or a horror story?

Instead, I decided to describe the absurd, weird, and impossible events that confronted us daily. I did not want to inform the horrific, if not ghoulish, combat results. Still, the revulsions we discovered in the jungle and the inhumanity of the enemy needed exposure. After all, we walked the land and became forced to participate in the brutality and bestiality plaguing that war-torn country where death and destruction became normal.

It occurred we would never find redemption for what we did. There was no sense to any of it except performing our duty. I thought it would make us irredeemable. And yet, we could not avoid becoming part of the deceit, secrecy, depravity, and death.

And that is the Vietnam I wrote about — sparing nothing of our feelings and descension into the abyss of the trauma that would become a permanent part of our being.

The story of the sordid history and what we did to survive will launch in early November. I invite you to read the first chapter and listen to the ghost story of Corporal Cummings as broadcast by NPR, receive the newsletter, acquire the memoir at special launch day pricing, and become eligible for authentic Vietnam War memorabilia at the Vietnam Jerry site.

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