Vietnam: Fresh Positive Insights For All Who Suffered Loss in the Vietnam War [Paperback]

Joe Hartt (Author), Barney Visser (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2000

Like hundreds of thousands of others within this generation, my life, plans, and hopes were interrupted by an event which most of us have tended to look back upon with puzzlement, frequently with deep resentment, all too often with shame.

More than enough of us who participated in it don't care to look back at all, choosing rather to seal off those often painful memories and get on with the business of our lives.

The sad fact, however, is that this event, the Vietnam War, continues to this day to affect the lives of thousands of those who fought there.

For my part, the personal confusion, distress, and quest for understanding have led me in a different direction. What, I have asked myself, was the real objective of our war, the Vietnam War? What were we Americans really trying to do there? And above all, why?

Vietnam: Fresh, Positive Insights discovers some new answers to these decades-old questions. If you know people who would find this book comforting, resolving or helpful, please give them a copy.

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I have seen VIETNAM bring resolution to hearts that have been heavy since 1968. Join me in passing it on! -- Bobb Biehl, President, Masterplanning Group International, Orlando, Florida

VIETNAM is a clear, positive presentation of the freedoms and benefits every American enjoys today BECAUSE of the Vietnam War! -- Bo Mitchell, President, Touch'em All Foundation, Denver, Colorado

About the Author

Joe Hartt spent 8 years serving as a Naval Aviator primarily aboard CVA-31, USS Bon Homme Richard, flying A-Skyhawks with Air Groups 12, 19 and 4. Joe logged thousands of hours of flight time and hundreds of day and night carrier landings.

After his service with the Navy, Joe joined the IBM Corporation, Data Processing contractors to NASA at at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas. He was responsible for all computer processing functions during all Apollo Missions except for Apollo 17. Joe Hartt died in 1997.

Barney Visser volunteered for active duty in Vietnam in 1967 after declining options for attending stateside service academies. He served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade as a paratrooper. Since Vietnam, Barney found and built a retail store chain which employs over 2,200 full-time team members. Barney and his wife Carolyn are the parents of seven children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Premiere Publishing Co. (November 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0966404998
• ISBN-13: 978-0966404999
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,309,494 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Insight into how the Vietnam veteran feels about the war and the response of the American public, June 12, 2007

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This review is from: Vietnam: Fresh Positive Insights For All Who Suffered Loss in the Vietnam War (Paperback)

As someone who lived through the later years of the Vietnam War and a student of history, I understand how divisive it was. Having read many of the more unbiased academic examinations and "The Pentagon Papers", there is no question that it was one of the biggest mistakes in the history of the United States. So many people died as a consequence of faulty leadership in the United States. And they are still dying, as is stated in this book, somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 American veterans of the war have committed suicide since they returned to the United States.
This book is about how many veterans of that conflict feel. They patriotically went over there and what they found was not what was claimed. Most understood that they were not fighting for the grand ideals being touted by people who never left the states, for many they were simply fighting to live through their tour. When they got back, they were snubbed by a society that refused to accept that it was a mistake and that all citizens shared some of the responsibility for it.
If you want to know how the Vietnam veteran really feels about his experiences, then read this book. It is a brief examination of how the American involvement was justified and what the war did to the people who fought it. Many, if not most of them feel that they were simply pawns in a great game where no one really emerged victorious. For in the end, Vietnam was destined to be united under the rule of the North and American involvement did nothing more than delay that by a few years.