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Regret to Inform You: Experiences of Families Who Lost a Family Member in Vietnam

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The conversational dialog used for writing this book appealed to me. This writing style for expressing the feelings from families who lost loved ones in the controversial Vietnam war brought many feelings that I had about the war to the surface. So often I was brought to tears as I experienced the loss that the families felt from losing a loved one, anger from the run-around the families experienced while searching for answers, and courage and faith from the love that is holding the families together. While reading this book, I shared the families' pain and felt like I knew these families. While I felt much sadness while reading the stories, I also gained courage, and faith from their families. I would recommend this book.

The book shows me (a person of another era) what it was like to be notified that a loved one was MIA in a faraway, unpopular war. The dialogue is so real and the people so open that I feel as though I could reach across the table and respond to them in their own living rooms. The book is very fair and balanced in its approach to the political and governmental environments of the time.

For anyone who lost a family member in this conflict this is a must read. For families coping with trying to get information and then closure to the loss of their child or brother this book offers hope in showing how families have dealt with and overcome obstacles in resolving and bringing closure to an emotional void in their lives.