Product Description
Coming Home from the War is the true story of a young man coming home after being drafted into the army and surviving a year in Vietnam.
The world had changed in more ways than one in the year he’d been away. The first place his Uncle Monty takes him to is Haight-Ashbury, the epicenter of the hippie movement in 1967 with the Summer of Love going on right before his eyes. It was a mind-blowing experience but less than comfortable for him since he was still in his army uniform and being gawked at as a freak with all his Vietnam medals on his chest.
After being home on a 30-day leave and making up for lost time with his girlfriend, he has to spend another six months in the army at Fort Benning, GA before he gets out of the army for good. While there he didn’t even realize he went from 125 pounds to almost 170 pounds working at Martin Army Hospital.
He also didn’t realize how much the world had changed until he met a group of hippies at Cal State LA called The Tribe who he moved in with, became a hippie himself and hitchhiked across the country with looking for America but found only bewilderment.
He wound up marrying one of the girls from The Tribe and they moved up to Ventura where he took a job at the Seabee Navy Base in Port Hueneme. He and his wife had a baby and he thought everything was fine until his life began to fall apart.
He goes on vision quests with other Vietnam Vets and decides to try figuring out what he wants in life and how to find it. His shrink tells him to make a quality control checklist to find a lady who he’s compatible with before he gets involved with someone again.
Coming Home from the War covers surviving Vietnam only to struggle readjusting to civilian life and surviving PTSD. It takes the reader in a first person, you are there style (often with humorous detail) going from being happy to be home to the unexpected reality of going through divorces and losing jobs until he figures out how to survive who he's become.
The world had changed in more ways than one in the year he’d been away. The first place his Uncle Monty takes him to is Haight-Ashbury, the epicenter of the hippie movement in 1967 with the Summer of Love going on right before his eyes. It was a mind-blowing experience but less than comfortable for him since he was still in his army uniform and being gawked at as a freak with all his Vietnam medals on his chest.
After being home on a 30-day leave and making up for lost time with his girlfriend, he has to spend another six months in the army at Fort Benning, GA before he gets out of the army for good. While there he didn’t even realize he went from 125 pounds to almost 170 pounds working at Martin Army Hospital.
He also didn’t realize how much the world had changed until he met a group of hippies at Cal State LA called The Tribe who he moved in with, became a hippie himself and hitchhiked across the country with looking for America but found only bewilderment.
He wound up marrying one of the girls from The Tribe and they moved up to Ventura where he took a job at the Seabee Navy Base in Port Hueneme. He and his wife had a baby and he thought everything was fine until his life began to fall apart.
He goes on vision quests with other Vietnam Vets and decides to try figuring out what he wants in life and how to find it. His shrink tells him to make a quality control checklist to find a lady who he’s compatible with before he gets involved with someone again.
Coming Home from the War covers surviving Vietnam only to struggle readjusting to civilian life and surviving PTSD. It takes the reader in a first person, you are there style (often with humorous detail) going from being happy to be home to the unexpected reality of going through divorces and losing jobs until he figures out how to survive who he's become.
