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Through Smoked Glass: Glimpses of a life before, during and after Vietnam

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As a son of a Vietnam veteran, I can higly recoomend this book. It is very well done, easy to read and treats the war with a fresh perspective.
Mr. Richardson's approach is unique, using well written verse to give insights into the life of a veteran from that era.

This author has the ability to draw the reader into his "space". Through his written words, one feels the pull..the draw to become a part of each poem, each dream, each memory and all tolled, it becomes a story within itself; each leading down a pathway where one has once walked.
None speaks so loudly to me than "Lessons in the Earth" It brings to mind of a time once lived...a time now gone but forever etched in a readers heart.
This small but profound collection is truly a gift from the author to all of his readers.....even the very brightest of a future will always be based on a never totally forgotten past.

This book should be owned and rwad by poets, veterans, and you. It presents the ignored story about a war we should have never fought. And, it provides some of the most heart-felt personal poetry ever written for public viewing. The author has given blood - that of a man who has fought and lived, and can now forgive those whose actions took away his youth, but gave him high values for a good life. Read it, and weep, read it and laugh, read it and wish that you could write as well.

Some of us might not care to imagine the horrors of war. Others would like to shun the all too real memories. For all, this book gives a glimpse of life from a person who has "been there, done that", yet who still recalls the innocence before as well as the turmoil and eventual healing which followed. An easy read in one sitting or in bits and pieces as you like.

This book was particularly meaningful for me, since my husband fought in Vietnam and my father served in WWII. Many of the thoughts presented here rang true.
This is more than a collection of war stories, it is a heartfelt remembrance of the good and the bad, the before and the after.
Mr. Richardson has a real gift for expressing both sensitivity and hard, cold reality.
I found his writing emotional, evocative and yet easy to understand; and I recommend it highly.