Published: Jan. 02, 2012
Words: 63661 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

A raw portrayal of Don’s experience during the Vietnam War, dealing with dead and dying children. He exposes his soul discussing events in his life while coping with PTSD issues, not knowing for 40 years that he was suffering from the disorder. As conditions worsen he moves into a tent in the woods. Through treatment he returns to Vietnam and in a matter of a few months his whole life has changed.

Extended description

A raw portrayal of Don’s experience during the Vietnam War, dealing with dead and dying children. He exposes his soul discussing events in his life while coping with PTSD issues, not knowing for 40 years that he was suffering from the disorder. As conditions worsen he moves into a tent in the woods. Through treatment he returns to Vietnam and in a matter of a few months his whole life has changed.

Comments from Chet Sunde, Psy.D., Clinical Psychologist

I just read the intro through chapter three. Your book is raw (in a good way) and truthful. It is going to be of great help to others...help combat vets understand themselves better, and help civilians understand them better. It is a success story...like Rocky...beat down round after round...but on his feet, bloodied and bruised, on his feet and an inspiration to others in the end. But most of all...the beauty of your book is the humanity and love of fellow man that already comes through, and I can't wait to read in the chapters to c... (Read more) A raw portrayal of Don’s experience during the Vietnam War, dealing with dead and dying children. He exposes his soul discussing events in his life while coping with PTSD issues, not knowing for 40 years that he was suffering from the disorder. As conditions worsen he moves into a tent in the woods. Through treatment he returns to Vietnam and in a matter of a few months his whole life has changed.

Comments from Chet Sunde, Psy.D., Clinical Psychologist

I just read the intro through chapter three. Your book is raw (in a good way) and truthful. It is going to be of great help to others...help combat vets understand themselves better, and help civilians understand them better. It is a success story...like Rocky...beat down round after round...but on his feet, bloodied and bruised, on his feet and an inspiration to others in the end. But most of all...the beauty of your book is the humanity and love of fellow man that already comes through, and I can't wait to read in the chapters to come. And the end of the book will only be the beginning of the story...a story that needs to be published and read by people all over the globe. A story of hope and light out of the darkness of war, and the consequences that echo through the years in the lives of those who serve in war, and those who cross their path.

Includes 24 photos (no graphic photos).
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Tags

military, ptsd, war, vietnam, veteran, marine corps, southeast asia, agent orange

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Review by: Suzy Stewart Dubot on April 12, 2012 :
Being of a similar age to the author and having been well aware of the war in Viet Nam, this story affected me perhaps more than someone younger. I read it in one day...
A young man who had a promising future before entering the war, returns from Viet Nam a changed person. He will spend the next 42 years of his life as a misfit.
These memoirs are well documented so that one is drawn into the hopelessness resulting from a war fought by so many young, impressionable people. Mr. Bick has struggled on when so many others have fallen for one reason or another. I am quite humbled by his will to survive when up against so much adversity and ignorance.
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