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Theres a tricky twist in Mikes new book The War Youve Always Wanted, and that hits home with me. -Capt. Dale Dye, Combat Correspondent, USMC (Ret.) Author, Actor, and Filmmaker
takes you deep into the frustration and horror of the Vietnam War through the eyes of characters you wont soon forget. -Terry Golway Author of I Never Did Like Politics and So Others Might Live
Pat Dolans father has a box. In it are treasures from Jimmy Dolans service in World War II-his photos, his medals, his memories. But ten-year-old Pat cant understand why his father refuses to look in the box. After all, the war was a grand adventure, wasnt it?
Determined to serve in the Army like his father, Pat enlists nine years later-but its 1972, and the American military is withdrawing from Vietnam after seven years of futile combat. As an Army combat correspondent surrounded by people growing more desperate by the day, young Dolan quickly learns how bleak the Souths prospects are. He is forced to witness the slow, steady death of a nation.
When Pat is wounded in action, he wonders if he will live long enough to fill a box of his own. Are there any treasures to be found in a country as fragile as this?
Author: Mike McLaughlin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Koehler Books
Published: 05/21/2024
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9798888243374
Language: English
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