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(More customer reviews)*****IMPORTANT NOTICE*******
***TWO of the FIVE reviews were written by the author, himself!
***Therefore, the four-star rating for this book is grossly INFLATED!
To have known very, very well, one of the main characters, Steve Chasin, a helicopter pilot shot down and killed in Cambodia along with three crew members, made into a mockery is absolutely unforgiveable. The author never met Steve and admitted to using "literary license" to make the book more readable! I personally have those things in writing from the author himself!
Supposed "literary license" is one thing, but defaming the dead who cannot defend themselves is more than morally despicable! What the author presented as non-fiction is almost all fiction concerning Chasin! Chasin was a man with full loyalty, integrity, strength of character, and mentally very, very stable. The author presented Chasin as borderline insane. That is a direct lie of the worst kind for it is in print for anyone to see and can never be taken back!
Chasin was admired tremendously throughout his life and by all of his Army buddies up until his last breath! Several of his buddies still visit his grave to give their respects some forty-one years later! One helicopter buddy named his son, "Chasin" after him. Some, even now, use Steve's name as their computer passwords! Many, many people's eyes (including two colonels whom I know) have welled up at simply seeing or touching Chasin's name on the Vietnam Veterans' memorial.
To use lies to desecrate the memory of one of our Vietnam vets is completely unacceptable! Why would an author write such a book except for monetary gain and some ill-gained fame? Questions of the author's integrity, honesty, and morals should be raised.
The right thing for the author to do is to take the book off the market so that the he can no longer profit in any way. If you feel you must read it, please do as one of my friends did. Purchase a used copy so that Harold Hester cannot profit off the back of this honored and much loved dead soldier.
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