Announcing the release of Jack Stoddard's book, What Are They Going To Do, Send Me To VIETNAM? - a true account of the Vietnam experience.Lifestyle Editors CHANDLER, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2000 As April 30th approaches, America will be contemplating Vietnam, 25 years after the end of the war. A new book reflects the true experience of Vietnam from a Veteran's eyes. Jack Stoddard's account of the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. in his latest book entitled, What Are They Going To Do, Send Me To VIETNAM? is real. What readers will find, is a collection of vividly true accounts of a bunch of scared young men thrown into one of this country's most ill-conceived military campaigns on the other side of the globe. Stoddard arrived in Vietnam in 1968 a green, 22-year-old buck sergeant Noun 1. buck sergeant - a sergeant of the lowest rank in the military police sergeant, sergeant - a lawman with the rank of sergeant and after almost three full tours of combat duty, he left a battle-hardened veteran. Now, more than a quarter-century later, his sons want to know what it was like. Their natural curiosity caused him to travel once again into the unbearably hot and humid jungles of southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. of the late 1960s and dredge up long-buried memories. He decided to organize these stories into a book so others could also learn the truth. As Retired Brigadier General Tom White says in his foreword, "This book is not about colonels, generals, or politicians. It is about what it was really like to soldier in Vietnam. We see the entire Vietnam experience - days of boredom interspersed with moments of sheer terror Sheer Terror was an influential and long-lasting American hardcore band from New York City. The band was one of the first to mix shades of heavy metal with a hardcore punk base, pioneering a heavier style of hardcore that would become popular in the following decades. , miserable weather, lonesomeness - everything from hand grenades to hemorrhoids hemorrhoids (hĕm`əroidz) or piles, dilatations of the veins about the anus (external hemorrhoids) or those higher up inside it (internal hemorrhoids). ." Stoddard describes what it was like to drive his 50-ton tank, nicknamed the Double Deuce, into war-torn Khe Sanh. He shares the lighter side that even wars can have when tells of the new second lieutenant commanding his tank right into the mud where it slowly disappeared from sight. Through it all comes an understanding of the love and respect that bound these men together, that created the type of selflessness demonstrated by the young medic medic: see alfalfa. who stood up in a blaze on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; excited or exasperated. See also: Blaze of Viet Cong bullets so he could point out the machine gun nest knowing this act of saving his fellow soldiers would be the last thing he would ever do. What Are They Going To Do, Send Me To VIETNAM? (ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-9678055-0-3, $13.95, 215 pages, non-fiction, published by Sunrise Mountain Publishing, trade paperback) is available through Barnes & Noble, Borders, and other bookstores. To request a free review copy and/or to schedule an interview with the author, please contact Linda Radke at Five Star Publications, Inc., by phone, fax, or e-mail at Radke@FiveStarSupport.com and look at the web site at http://www.FiveStarSupport.com/Vietnam . SOURCE: DigitalWork ( http://www.digitalwork.com ) DigitalWork.com -- Your Business Workshop |
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