By the time America decided to engage in Vietnam, the Soviets had already overwhelmed fifteen nations by force and fear. The conflict that followed was one of American history's toughest infantry wars. American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War call it "the Nam." In this unique recollection of deadly, close-quarters infantry combat, author and twenty-year US Army veteran Donald R. White shares his wealth of personal experience, presenting an emotional trip through violence and bloodshed. In the time period between late ...
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By the time America decided to engage in Vietnam, the Soviets had already overwhelmed fifteen nations by force and fear. The conflict that followed was one of American history's toughest infantry wars. American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War call it "the Nam." In this unique recollection of deadly, close-quarters infantry combat, author and twenty-year US Army veteran Donald R. White shares his wealth of personal experience, presenting an emotional trip through violence and bloodshed. In the time period between late fall of 1965 and late summer of 1969, hundreds of men were killed in action each week-something that survivors live with daily. Former US Army platoon sergeant Donald R. White reveals detailed facts about infantry war that are bloody, horrific, and shocking. In this personal account, he deals with memories that are seldom happy and often grim, giving readers an eye-witness account of what the Nam was really like for American fighting men.
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Nam Was A Place Where Death Came Every Day In Many
There are other memoirs about the battles occurring in The "Plei Trap Valley," which is viewed historically as "Tet 1969," namely Don Bendell's superb account entitled "Valley of Tears" as well as Jerry Horton's "The Shake 'n Bake Sergeant." Horton was White's "A Company "Noncommissioned Officer who was seriously wounded with the author in the March 12th battle. Nevertheless, White recalls with individualistic rancor the bitterness felt in his thankless "Welcome Home" as well as the deterioration of America's military might after Walter Cronkite's damaging post Tet 1968 Offensive comments, President Johnson's decision not to run for reelection and Congress's abandonment of South Vietnam, which the author describes as one of history's "worst stabs in the back." White dissects the entire Vietnam War, describing what he calls "2 separate conflicts" both adversely affected by an irresponsible leftist inspired press responsible for turning the American public against their own soldiers. Depending on the branch and year of service, there are many different narrations of how America's 1964-1973 involvement in Southeast Asia was viewed. To White, who's first tour was in 1966 with the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, the first war was one of khaki uniformed officers whom lived the best of a tough war at Military Assistance Command of Vietnam in Saigon. Their toughest chore was conducting the "Saigon Follies," i.e. press conferences where correspondents tried to shoot holes in the American war effort. The second war White deemed "The Nam," a somber, wretched place of close combat, ambushes, M-16's and AK-47's, tunnels, Huey's, and snipers. The only constant factor was bloodshed and massacres. The later was the war "No Body Armor" so eloquently describes; descriptive to the last detail of violent encounters Don White witnessed and almost died in. The author righteously declares that this was the first time in history an enemy rallied a large group of Americans against their own people. White also points out that the draft dodgers, Vietnam Veterans Against The War and those that absconded to Canada all but forgot about our still missing prisoners of war. With embarrassing taunts of "baby killer" and "psychopathic murderer," White laments the fact that those who answered the call and fought in combat returned to a nation where a large segment of its citizens shamed and wrongfully vilified the Vietnam Veteran. It is correctly pointed out that an individual who witnessed the carnage in Vietnam went through a horrific trial by combat with many 18 and nineteen year olds growing old fast. This tremendous recollection by Don White is an important contribution to anyone who endeavors to understand what happened in the not too distant past in a place referred to as "The Nam."