Goodreads asked Tom Glenn:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Tom Glenn Where would I travel? To Vietnam during wartime, before April 1975. That's the land of J.M Graham's Arizona Moon, Phil Caputo's Indian Country, and Karl Marlantes' Matterhorn. It's also the home of much of my own writing, retelling the events that shaped me as a man. I'd want to relive the brotherhood I shared with combatants who died by my side. I'd feel again the bond with men who'd die to save my life, just as I risked mine to save theirs. I crave to feel again the love—we don't call it that, but that's what it is—between men who fight side by side against a common enemy.

Vietnam as it is today has no appeal for me. I've never gone back and don't want to. What I yearn for is not there. It's here in my heart. I've never forgotten.

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