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(More customer reviews)Having written seven books, two of which contain short stand alone stories, I can tell you that these types of books are not favorites with regular readers. If they're to find favor at all, each story had better have substance and come to a fulfilling conclusion. As an example of where this book failed to do that and lost a star, was a story about a helicopter crash that was witnessed by people close by, but afterwards, the crew could not be found in the wreckage are anywhere else. This story ask way too much of a reader. In this author's defense, he does say up front it's not the run of the mill Vietnam War book, and he's telling the truth.
While my newest book, "Kill Me If You Can", is hated by Vietnam veterans, they know it's real.
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This collection of short stories is intended to illustrate a more humorous glimpse of a soldier's life in Vietnam. It's of the times when boredom and a fertile imagination often lead to amusing situations, rather than the "blood and guts" of combat.All the narratives in this book, saves one, are true, or at least were presented to the author as fact. Some are without a doubt true, as they happened to the author. Other Vietnam veterans related the remainder of the yarns, swearing that each and every detail was unquestioningly genuine. We all know that combat veterans do not lie but their memories may, nevertheless recall their experiences slightly altered from actual events. Perusing these stories the reader might logically conclude that ego or passing years might, just possibly, influence a few of the bone-chilling tales.GI's live through numerous happenstances that are not heroic but are embarrassing or mundane. No matter how cynical a GI becomes, some events, maybe only in retrospect, are viewed as ironic or downright funny. These random experiences are what the book are about.
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