IT TOOK HEROES by Chaplain Claude Newby - A Chaplain's Tribute to Vietnam Veterans and Those Who Waited for Them.
June 23, 1967
"Ambush! screamed my brain the instant geysers of dirt began sprouting up on the right shoulder of the road ahead of the jeep. A fraction of a second later, my ears confirmed what my eyes saw. An AK-47 on full automatic was kicking up those geysers. The enemy had hit us when we were about 200 feet from where the road curved left at the top of the hill............," said Chaplain Newby.
IT TOOK HEROES VOLUME II by Chaplain Claude Newby - Continuing the Story and Tribute To Those Who Endured the Darkest Days of Vietnam
Pages 224 & 225
The regular infantryman's combat tour was a year - if he made it all the way - of near total misery. He was always wet and muddy or hot and soaked with sweat, engulfed in the stench of unwashed clothing and bodies. Often he drank water that was "fortified" with dead polliwogs and leeches; and he was accustomed to finding leeches in unpleasant places on his person. Several factors rendered the regular field troopers' existence incomparable to that of anyone else......
How to order It Took Heroes Volume II by Chaplain Claude Newby
A book that every veteran will want to give his wife and every wife will want to give her veteran. A systematic investigation of the costs of war for soldiers and their families including information on how to recover.
Learn:
- What your veteran faced
- The normal effects of war
- How PTSD affects families
- How to get better
How to order Recovering From The War by Patience H. C. Mason
Page 72, "Flying low and fast over the jungle gave us the advantage of surprise. We came back with our ten helicopters and approximately seventy heavily armed troops and landed in the middle of four hundred North Vietnamese Regulars........The North Vietnamese Army was using this piece of real estate as a resting area and was caught off guard...........One of the NVA soldiers was set up inside the dirt mound of a rice paddy...........All ten helicopters were struck by enemy fire............
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