Mad Minutes and Vietnam Months

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THE MAD MINUTES OF UNNERVING VIOLENCE WERE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. THE REALITY OF 'NAM WAS MONTHS OF WAITING... Waiting for a transport to the front lines, waiting for a tour to ond... waiting for the war to make sense. In this vivid first-person account, former Sergeant Micheal Clodfelter telis of stepping off a transport ship onto Vietnamese soil in 1965 with the highest of hopes. Here, he felt, was his chance to be a part of history, to truly understand bravery and loyalty. His dreams were quickly shattered by the drudgery of duty behind the lines in Vietnam, where the main hazards were insects, intestinal parasites-and boredom. Determined to experience what he considered the acid test of a man's courage and worth, the trial by combat, he signed up for an additional six months as a "grunt" or infantryman at the end of his first tour. s Still, his dreams of glory eluded him. Injured by a boobytrap, ? Clodfelter was awarded the Purple Heart. The wound in his leg i healed within a few... Tovább

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THE MAD MINUTES OF UNNERVING VIOLENCE WERE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. THE REALITY OF 'NAM WAS MONTHS OF WAITING... Waiting for a transport to the front lines, waiting for a tour to ond... waiting for the war to make sense. In this vivid first-person account, former Sergeant Micheal Clodfelter telis of stepping off a transport ship onto Vietnamese soil in 1965 with the highest of hopes. Here, he felt, was his chance to be a part of history, to truly understand bravery and loyalty. His dreams were quickly shattered by the drudgery of duty behind the lines in Vietnam, where the main hazards were insects, intestinal parasites-and boredom. Determined to experience what he considered the acid test of a man's courage and worth, the trial by combat, he signed up for an additional six months as a "grunt" or infantryman at the end of his first tour. s Still, his dreams of glory eluded him. Injured by a boobytrap, ? Clodfelter was awarded the Purple Heart. The wound in his leg i healed within a few months, but the emotional pain Clodfelter brought back from Vietnam has never entirely healed. MAD MINUTES AND VIETNAM MONTHS is unlike any other account of the American experience in Vietnam. , Eloquently written and passionately ^ Ég^^H^Ci ¦ felt, by turns darkly humorous and || .S ¦ deeply moving, Clodfelter's story SHyHÖ; of the war is essential, vivid reading for those who were there and cannot 'w^'^gi^^^M forget, and for those who were %-^r ^PliffiOBi? not and strive to understand. Vissza