VIETNAM AND THE PRICE OF SURVIVAL

We were battle-weary — worn to the bone. The weariness was in us, deep in the marrow, and no amount of sleep took it away. We’d go on one mission, then another, and circumstances felt the same, no matter the details. But we kept moving, kept up the pace. There must have been something left. I wondered where it came from.

We had our orders, and we did what we had to do. We planned and executed as best we could with what we knew. We checked and rechecked until everything was right, as familiar as our names. There was no room for mistakes. But still, something always went south. It was as if some invisible hand interfered with everything we tried.

The intel was wrong. The artillery never hit. The jets were late. Once, the UH-1 dropped us in the wrong place, and the enemy was already on us. And through all of it, Command had the coordinates, the map, and the mission laid out like a blueprint. Still, we entered bedlam on every mission. And the injuries we sustained were not the worst of it.

The scars on the outside told of our courage, but they weren’t the actual wounds. The real damage, the damage you couldn’t see, was in us. It was in the road we’d traveled, the one leading deep into our souls. And that was the true legacy of Vietnam.

“Vietnam Uncensored -365 Days in a Nightmare” is a no-holds-barred accounting of the malevolent politicians who fueled a useless and purposeless war and what our unit did to survive among the chaos of combat, corrupt military personnel, incompetence, everything that went wrong, and the absurdity of it all. The book is receiving excellent reviews on Amazon. Net proceeds are pledged to the Kaufman Fund to help veterans in need. Grab your copy now, get a great read, and support a worthy cause.