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Reflections During a Monsoon Evening: The Poems and Memories of a Vietnam Soldier

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This is the best book of war poems since "The Leaves of Grass". The experiences of a young US Infantry Officer, during three years of combat in Vietnam, reflected in the form of photographs, essays, and poems. The most important question asked at the time by everyone was, whether the communist or the democratic way of life would remain standing. All of those who fell were very young, for the most part handsome young men, who followed the orders they were given to obey, and the examples set for them by their fathers, and grandfathers. Fear and death were hard to confront, day in and day out, when the ones at home, who could have lent moral support, ridiculed and abused those who did the fighting. The work takes the reader into the action, or its contemplation, with all the pain, and sadness, that was, is and will always remain in the American conscience and the resultant consequences to a generation of their own sons and daughters