Two books of Vietnam recollections coming soon
Even now, fifty years after his return from Vietnam, Ovidio Garcia still sees danger when he encounters a treeline at the end of a field. Fifty years ago the United States was in the midst of cataclysmic social turmoil. In a short period of five years, assassins gunned down three of its most prominent leaders; President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Martin Luther King in Memphis, and Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. Hundreds of thousands of young people were in the streets protesting discrimination, politics and “the War in Vietnam!” Meanwhile, clear across the other side of the world, in a place most people could not find on the map, tens of thousands of other young men and women were engaged in a life and death struggle in the jungles of a place called South Vietnam, to distinguish it from its enemy North Vietnam. Presumably, the Vietnamese knew why they were fighting, but most of the young Americans called to arms in this faraway place had no idea. They were following orders. some volu...