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Combat and Campus: Writing through the War
An infantryman's riveting letters from Vietnam, preserved for 50 years by his family, share experiences of living the war that are honest, raw, and graphic. A journalist and soldier with the 25th Infantry Division, riding armored personnel carriers into rice paddies, engaging in night time sweeps of the combat area, Sgt. Peter Langlois chronicles the smells, sights, and sounds during some of the darkest days of the war from 1968 to 1969. He would return home to a nation still protesting the war in which his younger sister, Annette, had walked to class behind National Guardsmen marching across the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Their correspondence and her poetry offer a unique perspective of the war in Vietnam and social change happening at home. Together, they share what was learned and what was lost.
194 pages, Paperback
Published May 17, 2021
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May 20, 2021
Using letters and poetry, Annette Langlois Grunseth unfolds the story of her brother, Sgt. Peter R. Langlois, as he serves in Vietnam. First hand accounts of the war from Peter’s letters are balanced by Annette’s heartfelt poetry as she witnesses the war protests on the University of Wisconsin campus.
May 27, 2021
Annette Langlois Grunseth gives you in Combat and Campus a skillfully organized collection of her brother’s heirloom family letters and her own poetry that transports the reader back to the horrors of the Vietnam War. Not only horrors, but the fear, anxiety, hope, doubt and uncertainty that must have been present at the Langlois kitchen table and the author's dorm room. It’s as if you had a seat at that kitchen table as you read through this superbly documented collection of letters and become one of the family hanging on Peter’s every letter. The accounts spare no details about what this soldier experienced, from gunfire and blood to the despair and desperation of a soldier waiting for his time to come home. The depth of feeling in his letters is augmented by his sister’s stinging and honest poetry as she writes of her brother’s tour of duty.
I am not a veteran. In 1969, this is the way it was; college or Vietnam. It was an easy choice at age 18. A choice that put me on that same UW-Madison campus where protesters, police and guardsmen still clashed as I ran from class to class, careful to avoid the mayhem. Now, in my senior years I think about that choice from time to time. Especially when I talk to a veteran. But never so much as when I read the personal accounts of Peter Langlois.
I am not a veteran. In 1969, this is the way it was; college or Vietnam. It was an easy choice at age 18. A choice that put me on that same UW-Madison campus where protesters, police and guardsmen still clashed as I ran from class to class, careful to avoid the mayhem. Now, in my senior years I think about that choice from time to time. Especially when I talk to a veteran. But never so much as when I read the personal accounts of Peter Langlois.
June 20, 2021
"Combat and Campus: Writing through the War" is an exceptional book. The author's brother was drafted into the Vietnam War shortly after graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a degree in journalism. The letters he wrote home are real and raw, written with the eye of a journalist. He makes the war experience viscerally real, as he reports on his experiences with the 25th infantry Division.
The author also shares her perspective as a student at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus where serious antiwar demonstrations were happening outside her dorm, masterfully interspersing her original poems that are reactions to his letters, with his actual letters. Her poems are treasures in themselves.
I read the first 102 pages in one sitting and was upset I had to stop for an appointment. It's hard facing and feeling all that war is but it is also lovely feeling the love and respect the author and her family held tight during this terrible frightening time and beyond.
Sit down and read it and then read it again.
The author also shares her perspective as a student at the University of Wisconsin Madison campus where serious antiwar demonstrations were happening outside her dorm, masterfully interspersing her original poems that are reactions to his letters, with his actual letters. Her poems are treasures in themselves.
I read the first 102 pages in one sitting and was upset I had to stop for an appointment. It's hard facing and feeling all that war is but it is also lovely feeling the love and respect the author and her family held tight during this terrible frightening time and beyond.
Sit down and read it and then read it again.
May 21, 2021
In Combat and Campus Writing through War, Annette Langlois Grunseth and her brother Peter Langlois share a family’s love, fears, and horrors during the turbulent Vietnam years and the lasting harms of its aftermath. This is an important firsthand account of Peter’s year in Vietnam. His well-written and honest letters teach and touch readers. Annette’s concise history in the book’s foreword gives those who lived during these years a refresher of the time, and instructs those not yet born. Annette and Peter inherited not only their desire to put experiences into words through letters and Annette’s poems, but also a family history of military men and loss. Annette’s maternal uncle never returned, listed as missing-in-action in WWII.
Peter, wise beyond his 23 years, stated one reason for our involvement in this war, “Basically the major powers in this world haven’t matured enough to realize the virtue of love and compassion.” And this, “NO one has made an attempt to encourage G.I.s to respect Vietnamese people, their customs, religion and mode of living in general.”
This brave insightful young man experienced too much horror and then returned home to name-calling and hatred spit on him. How does one recover from being pressed into the insanity of war, the friends lost, the blood and body parts seen, the fear of dying? How does one return without anger at the pointless death and destruction and be expected to carry on in safe, comfortable America. Peter’s father said it best in a letter to his son, “They (the army) are training you to be an animal as you stated, but this is what war is about, a conflict between animals.”
Peter, wise beyond his 23 years, stated one reason for our involvement in this war, “Basically the major powers in this world haven’t matured enough to realize the virtue of love and compassion.” And this, “NO one has made an attempt to encourage G.I.s to respect Vietnamese people, their customs, religion and mode of living in general.”
This brave insightful young man experienced too much horror and then returned home to name-calling and hatred spit on him. How does one recover from being pressed into the insanity of war, the friends lost, the blood and body parts seen, the fear of dying? How does one return without anger at the pointless death and destruction and be expected to carry on in safe, comfortable America. Peter’s father said it best in a letter to his son, “They (the army) are training you to be an animal as you stated, but this is what war is about, a conflict between animals.”
May 28, 2021
I was deeply moved by COMBAT and CAMPUS, Writing through War. This perfectly balanced mix of letters, narration and poetry brought me back to my college days and the angst I felt over the Viet Nam conflict. But far more than that, it brought me to Viet Nam. The letters from Peter put me right there amidst the fear, the heat, the shellings, the gore, the deaths, the loss, the sorrow. Not since I read Tim OB’Brien’s The Things They Carried have I felt so transported. Peter’s eloquent and heartbreakingly vivid words were even more realistic than O’Brien’s, and Annette Grunseth’s memories of campus life and then of the terrible after effects of the war on her brother were insightful and tragic. I now have an even greater respect and sympathy for those who served in Viet Nam thanks to the research, writing and love that Annette Grunseth devoted to this unique memoir. It is a poignant tribute which honors her brother and all veterans.
June 10, 2021
Annette Langlois Grunseth captures the heart wrenching time in history during the Vietnam war. The well written descriptive letters from her brother serving in Vietnam and her responsive poetry reveal the tragedy that fell on her family. I could not help considering the terrific toll that war took on so many humans in our country and in Vietnam. It was a powerful, authentic story that everyone should read, lest we forget the toll and futility of war.
My husband said it was the “best book he ever read.” He lived through that era and his interest was piqued to read this first person account of being in Vietnam in the late sixties. The fear of being drafted controlled the life of all of his friends.
The authors are to be commended for sharing their articulate and powerful stories.
My husband said it was the “best book he ever read.” He lived through that era and his interest was piqued to read this first person account of being in Vietnam in the late sixties. The fear of being drafted controlled the life of all of his friends.
The authors are to be commended for sharing their articulate and powerful stories.
June 15, 2021
About halfway through the book, I realized I was mentally “checking the mailbox” for news from Peter. His letters felt as if they were written to me. You might also find yourself building an attachment through his letters and his sister Annette’s poetry. The letters are frozen in time without any thawing of memory or reflection in the way some memoirs shellac experiences. I cried and mourned while reading not only the letters but the poetry. The images of Annette’s brother as a young boy and a soldier hangs in my mind vividly—- the boy playing war, throwing pears like grenades, the young man mortified by the horrors of war.
January 12, 2025
Compelling, Thoughtful! The letters could have been written by any soldier who served in Vietnam. The poems were a story themselves. A Welcome Home to Our Vietnam Heroes.
Dr. Harry Kantrovich
Playwright, Actor and Director
Dr. Harry Kantrovich
Playwright, Actor and Director
May 15, 2021
An exceptional read revealing the raw impact of an infantry soldier in the battlefields in Vietnam communicated to his family at home. It reveals a spectacular interconnection of a family at home and a soldier in the fields. Beautifully written through poems and letters of a tight knit American family.
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May 26, 2021Excellent book . . . easy to read and the poetry is a wonderful compliment to the letters written from Vietnam. Annette did an excellent job writing the poetry and composing the books footprint. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in this genre and certainly to combat veterans with issues related to Vietnam.
Craig Tschetter, Author / FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO
USMC
Craig Tschetter, Author / FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO
USMC
May 27, 2021
Langlois went from college to Vietnam, following opting out of OCS. He experienced four months of fairly heavy combat, and reports (he was a journalism grad) on it effectively. His sister's poems are quite good.
May 30, 2021
Through her poetry and her brother’s agonizing letters, Annette Langlois Grunseth eloquently reminds us that those who served in Vietnam are still fighting a war. Sgt. Peter Langlois is a hero to us all.
June 17, 2021
Author Annette Grunseth’s book, Combat and Campus: Writing through War, lends her elegant and earnest voice to provide context to the powerful letters from Vietnam written by her brother, Peter Langlois, who was deployed in 1968 and 1969—letters that underscore the boredom, injustice, fear, grief, homesickness, and raw hopelessness that are inevitable byproducts of sending young men to war.
The book has been a long-time project of Grunseth’s, who inherited her brother’s letters following his death from Agent Orange-related cancer at the age of 59. Langlois wrote long letters home, forging a tenuous lifeline with the world he missed.
Grunseth’s poetry underscores every emotional high and low, framing Langlois’ letters brilliantly. Grunseth wrote that as profound as his Vietnam experience had been, she doubted that her brother had ever reread the many letters he had sent home, which his parents kept in their safety deposit box. Even his wife and children knew little about them.
Thankfully, his sister has resurrected them, giving us a poignant, powerful look at Vietnam from a soldier’s perspective.
The book has been a long-time project of Grunseth’s, who inherited her brother’s letters following his death from Agent Orange-related cancer at the age of 59. Langlois wrote long letters home, forging a tenuous lifeline with the world he missed.
Grunseth’s poetry underscores every emotional high and low, framing Langlois’ letters brilliantly. Grunseth wrote that as profound as his Vietnam experience had been, she doubted that her brother had ever reread the many letters he had sent home, which his parents kept in their safety deposit box. Even his wife and children knew little about them.
Thankfully, his sister has resurrected them, giving us a poignant, powerful look at Vietnam from a soldier’s perspective.
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February 18, 2022MWSA Review
Nearly fifty years after its peak, the Vietnam War still retains its reputation as the most turbulent and tragic of America’s military conflicts. It has produced a wide range of movies and books, many of which examine that darkness in highly-stylized ways. Combat and Campus takes a different route, however, one that is an effective complement to many notable works on Vietnam. It focuses on one soldier and his family, using the letters of Sgt. Peter Langlois during his deployment and the poetry of his sister Annette.
Langlois deployed in mid-1969 after the Tet Offensive had changed the tenor of the war and hardened American protests against it. His letters from in country are a vivid reminder of the horrors of jungle combat against a dug-in enemy and the shock felt by someone seeing those horrors for the first time. Yet what makes the story work are two other elements: pre-combat letters Langlois sent from his initial military training and poems/letters from other members of his family.
The initial letters from OCS show a new soldier who graciously looks past repetitive and pointless tasks, instead labeling the Army as “a real test of character” and growing “quite fond of Georgia” while training at the “beautifully landscaped” Fort Benning. His journalism degree resulted in a good sense for detail and an awareness of when to tell stories objectively versus when to pull back and reflect on his role in them. Things begin curdling even before Langlois leaves for Vietnam, however, and the book’s finest achievement is capturing an arc that begins with such good-naturedness and ends as far too many Vietnam experiences ultimately did.
Poetry can be difficult to objectively judge, but the inclusion of verse from Sgt. Langlois’s sister Annette accomplishes the important goal of providing insight into a family member’s parallel experience on a campus wracked by protests against the war her brother is fighting. Even the most visceral descriptions of war can become numbing, and the poetry (along with a smattering of letters to and from other people) keeps the depictions of combat from blurring together. Annette, who oversaw the process of publication, wisely left the largest chunk of poetry until the end where it can serve as a capstone to the overall story and a way of showing just how difficult these events were to process for everyone involved.
The awfulness of Vietnam is well-known and was increasingly referenced as post-9/11 military operations continued for nearly 20 years. But whether that comparison is apt is less important in many ways than the individual stories of the soldiers and families whose sacrifice is required for any type of war, just or unjust, quick or decades-long. This book does a fine job telling one of those stories.
Review by John McGlothlin (February 2022)
Nearly fifty years after its peak, the Vietnam War still retains its reputation as the most turbulent and tragic of America’s military conflicts. It has produced a wide range of movies and books, many of which examine that darkness in highly-stylized ways. Combat and Campus takes a different route, however, one that is an effective complement to many notable works on Vietnam. It focuses on one soldier and his family, using the letters of Sgt. Peter Langlois during his deployment and the poetry of his sister Annette.
Langlois deployed in mid-1969 after the Tet Offensive had changed the tenor of the war and hardened American protests against it. His letters from in country are a vivid reminder of the horrors of jungle combat against a dug-in enemy and the shock felt by someone seeing those horrors for the first time. Yet what makes the story work are two other elements: pre-combat letters Langlois sent from his initial military training and poems/letters from other members of his family.
The initial letters from OCS show a new soldier who graciously looks past repetitive and pointless tasks, instead labeling the Army as “a real test of character” and growing “quite fond of Georgia” while training at the “beautifully landscaped” Fort Benning. His journalism degree resulted in a good sense for detail and an awareness of when to tell stories objectively versus when to pull back and reflect on his role in them. Things begin curdling even before Langlois leaves for Vietnam, however, and the book’s finest achievement is capturing an arc that begins with such good-naturedness and ends as far too many Vietnam experiences ultimately did.
Poetry can be difficult to objectively judge, but the inclusion of verse from Sgt. Langlois’s sister Annette accomplishes the important goal of providing insight into a family member’s parallel experience on a campus wracked by protests against the war her brother is fighting. Even the most visceral descriptions of war can become numbing, and the poetry (along with a smattering of letters to and from other people) keeps the depictions of combat from blurring together. Annette, who oversaw the process of publication, wisely left the largest chunk of poetry until the end where it can serve as a capstone to the overall story and a way of showing just how difficult these events were to process for everyone involved.
The awfulness of Vietnam is well-known and was increasingly referenced as post-9/11 military operations continued for nearly 20 years. But whether that comparison is apt is less important in many ways than the individual stories of the soldiers and families whose sacrifice is required for any type of war, just or unjust, quick or decades-long. This book does a fine job telling one of those stories.
Review by John McGlothlin (February 2022)
October 4, 2023
Preserving History
There was the threat of communism in a foreign land; there was the call to action; there were the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and medical personnel; there was the draft; there were the antiwar demonstrations; there was the shameful blaming; and in the background waiting for loved ones to return home, there were the families and friends. Sgt. Peter Langlois and his sister Annette bring it all together in Combat and Campus. Annette complements her brother’s letters with her experience on the home front, and in the process two sensitive, brilliant brother/sister minds document that painful time. What sets Peter’s letters apart is his journalistic style addressing the who, what, when, where and why of his combat experience. What sets Annette’s reflections apart are her beautifully written verses about campus experience and her brother’s situation. The Vietnam War, technically and perhaps deceitfully referred to as the Vietnam Conflict, ended almost fifty years ago, but to those who lived it, it seems like yesterday, so fiercely were we affected. When I hear Vietnam is no longer in the curriculum, I am confused as to why. There are so many lessons to be learned about basic humanity, how to treat one another as people instead of “animals,” about purpose, and even how to resolve difference. What didn’t we learn? What are we yet to learn from the chaotic sixties? Peter’s letters document history in the moment. They are not interpretation. Annette’s poems imprint history with reflection. They are not interpretation. I am deeply grateful Annette honored her mother’s wish to publish Peter’s letters and, in the process, preserve history.
A word about the title. It is serendipitous how both six-letter, two-syllable words beginning with a hard ‘C’ - Combat and Campus - fit together like a puzzle, just like Peter’s letters and Annette’s poems. A remarkable and historically accurate documentation of a deeply troubled time.
Janette Stone
Author, Award Winning Please Write: A Novel
There was the threat of communism in a foreign land; there was the call to action; there were the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and medical personnel; there was the draft; there were the antiwar demonstrations; there was the shameful blaming; and in the background waiting for loved ones to return home, there were the families and friends. Sgt. Peter Langlois and his sister Annette bring it all together in Combat and Campus. Annette complements her brother’s letters with her experience on the home front, and in the process two sensitive, brilliant brother/sister minds document that painful time. What sets Peter’s letters apart is his journalistic style addressing the who, what, when, where and why of his combat experience. What sets Annette’s reflections apart are her beautifully written verses about campus experience and her brother’s situation. The Vietnam War, technically and perhaps deceitfully referred to as the Vietnam Conflict, ended almost fifty years ago, but to those who lived it, it seems like yesterday, so fiercely were we affected. When I hear Vietnam is no longer in the curriculum, I am confused as to why. There are so many lessons to be learned about basic humanity, how to treat one another as people instead of “animals,” about purpose, and even how to resolve difference. What didn’t we learn? What are we yet to learn from the chaotic sixties? Peter’s letters document history in the moment. They are not interpretation. Annette’s poems imprint history with reflection. They are not interpretation. I am deeply grateful Annette honored her mother’s wish to publish Peter’s letters and, in the process, preserve history.
A word about the title. It is serendipitous how both six-letter, two-syllable words beginning with a hard ‘C’ - Combat and Campus - fit together like a puzzle, just like Peter’s letters and Annette’s poems. A remarkable and historically accurate documentation of a deeply troubled time.
Janette Stone
Author, Award Winning Please Write: A Novel
July 26, 2021
"Love is all your need," sang the Beatles, a song playing while hate raged in Viet Nam. Fifty years later, this paradox provides the backdrop to "Combat and Campus," a heart-thumping, gut-wrenching, mind-boggling read of letters home from Peter, a college graduate, describing one scene after another--and for what: "an unwinnable war," he wrote, a fact he realized too late while his sister Annette worried her way to freshman classes at UW-Madison through (as she writes, later) "protests and police . . . wondering where my brother and his friend have gone."
Peter was drafted. He was trapped. Nothing made sense to him; he had no dominion over his hours, for he was owned, government-issue, a prisoner of the state of chaos, enduring nightmares. A man crawls on the ground, looking for his missing hand. Another man is still conscious when a medic begins a leg amputation to save his life.
It took time for Annette to glean the ineffable, then pair his agony with her poetry, as in "Cheerleaders at Yell Like Hell pep rally for homecoming could not compete with Hall No! We Won't Go."
"Death is so quick in Viet Nam," Peter wrote, "there's no way to prepare for it." Decades later, Peter dies and Annette notes "buried anger, your knotted silence, and those cancer cells. burning bright orange." These sibling insights should be required reading for "the major powers in this world . . . to realize the virtue of love and compassion," as Peter wrote. That compassion trudges on when Annette writes, "Coma is the comma before crossing over, a sad parting by those of us left behind."
Left behind is the quandary of global citizens getting along, a quandary that was haunting then, and worse now.
Peter was drafted. He was trapped. Nothing made sense to him; he had no dominion over his hours, for he was owned, government-issue, a prisoner of the state of chaos, enduring nightmares. A man crawls on the ground, looking for his missing hand. Another man is still conscious when a medic begins a leg amputation to save his life.
It took time for Annette to glean the ineffable, then pair his agony with her poetry, as in "Cheerleaders at Yell Like Hell pep rally for homecoming could not compete with Hall No! We Won't Go."
"Death is so quick in Viet Nam," Peter wrote, "there's no way to prepare for it." Decades later, Peter dies and Annette notes "buried anger, your knotted silence, and those cancer cells. burning bright orange." These sibling insights should be required reading for "the major powers in this world . . . to realize the virtue of love and compassion," as Peter wrote. That compassion trudges on when Annette writes, "Coma is the comma before crossing over, a sad parting by those of us left behind."
Left behind is the quandary of global citizens getting along, a quandary that was haunting then, and worse now.
October 13, 2023
COMBAT AND CAMPUS: WRITING THROUGH WAR by Annette Grunseth is a compilation of letters from her older brother, Peter, during his year-long tour in the Vietnam War between 1968-1969. The letters are listed chronologically and detail his life as an infantryman with the "Triple Duece" armor group and later as the company clerk in the 25th Infantry Division. They worked out of the Dau Tieng basecamp near the Cambodian border and worked the surrounding areas.
Pete received his draft notice after graduating college and obtaining a degree in journalism. His letters are professionally written and pull no punches as they reference what life was like on a daily basis. He cites battles, mortar barrages, deaths, and maiming as they occurred. There was no safe place, and none of the letters were sanitized for family members. He told it like it was!
The author also shares her letters to Pete as she describes the antiwar sentiment and demonstrations back home while attending the University of Wisconsin and being barred and/or escorted to classes by a member of the National Guard.
The author interspersed short poems throughout the work which tend to reflect upon an earlier letter. I am not a poetry-loving kind of guy, but her poems were easy to read and made sense. I liked them!
Peter died at the age of 59 from Agent Orange-related cancer and never had the chance to see his sister's work in print. War is hell and this book shows readers why. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in seeing what it was like for some of the infantry soldiers during the war. Thank you, Annette Grunseth for a work well done!
Pete received his draft notice after graduating college and obtaining a degree in journalism. His letters are professionally written and pull no punches as they reference what life was like on a daily basis. He cites battles, mortar barrages, deaths, and maiming as they occurred. There was no safe place, and none of the letters were sanitized for family members. He told it like it was!
The author also shares her letters to Pete as she describes the antiwar sentiment and demonstrations back home while attending the University of Wisconsin and being barred and/or escorted to classes by a member of the National Guard.
The author interspersed short poems throughout the work which tend to reflect upon an earlier letter. I am not a poetry-loving kind of guy, but her poems were easy to read and made sense. I liked them!
Peter died at the age of 59 from Agent Orange-related cancer and never had the chance to see his sister's work in print. War is hell and this book shows readers why. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in seeing what it was like for some of the infantry soldiers during the war. Thank you, Annette Grunseth for a work well done!
June 30, 2021
Peter's letters from Viet Nam and his excellent photos provide a clear picture of the horrors of this war and the frustration of the soldiers asked to fight in it.
His sister, Annette, was at the campus, where he received his journalism degree before being drafted, while he was in Viet Nam. Her poems reflect on her reaction to these letters and the campus unrest as well as the reaction of their parents, both military veterans.
While the war has been over for many years now, it is important not to forget the long-term outcomes of that war, both politically and personally. There are still many people alive who were dramatically changed by the war and the protests.
His sister, Annette, was at the campus, where he received his journalism degree before being drafted, while he was in Viet Nam. Her poems reflect on her reaction to these letters and the campus unrest as well as the reaction of their parents, both military veterans.
While the war has been over for many years now, it is important not to forget the long-term outcomes of that war, both politically and personally. There are still many people alive who were dramatically changed by the war and the protests.
February 12, 2022
As memories of the Vietnam War recede, we should remind ourselves on occasion of the sacrifice many of our young men made over a half century ago—and some are still making as old men. Combat and Campus is a powerful book, a first-hand account of some of the most brutal fighting of the war. It’s told through letters home from an enlisted man. Sprinkled through the book are poems written by his sister, who was besieged (on a much lower level) on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. The letters and poems complement each, and together provide a searing indictment of war. You will long remember spending a few hours with this slender book.
September 21, 2023
Annette Langlois Grunseth has accomplished what few authors do: ventured outside the rigid lines of genre and combined her poetry with her brother Peter’s 50-year-old letters from Vietnam. The result is a powerful family portrait and tale of survival, “Combat and Campus: Writing Through War.” Neither sibling censors the graphic details of the conflict and the struggle to make sense of turmoil on the battlefield or homefront. While parts of this book can be painful to read, whether or not you lived through that era, the book provides the perspective of history and the personal insights of poetry.
August 7, 2021
This book was riveting...I could not put it down. The reality, and impact of the Vietnam war on society, family, and individual was compelling. This is a good reminder of a very tumultuous period in the history of our country....and there are lessons to be applied to the divisiveness of today. READ IT! and have your children read it too!
July 21, 2021
This is a wonderful book especially for those that came of age during the Viet Nam conflict. There are gripping letters from a Viet Nam draftee and poems and other commentary from his sister back on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. I could not put down this book.
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