
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Michael Walsh had enlisted in the Army when he was sixteen years old. He departed shortly after turning seventeen. About a week after turning eighteen, he was in Vietnam. He was a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division during 1967 and 1968. This included the Tet Offensive early in 1968.
After approximately four months, it became clear that the war was more often being waged against the South Vietnamese people rather than on their behalf. The horror of war was intensified by the lack of moral purpose and the absence of legal justification for a war that was neither defensive nor declared.
The author decided to protest the war. He refused to participate by refusing to carry a rifle and, of course, endured a great deal of opposition, some of it violent and life-threatening.
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Table of contents
- Timeline of Important Events of US Involvement in Vietnam
- No! I Wonāt Fight Your War!
- VietnamāArrival
- Not Quite Flying
- Culture Shock
- Night Ambush Patrol
- Awards and Decorations Clerk
- Grenade!
- The Brothersā March
- Full Auto
- Just Get on the Chopperā¦
- Kill or Be Killed
- The Ones We Left Behind
- Muster
- The Gambler
- Convoy
- Motherless Child
- Close, Close Call
- Sniper Bait
- A Strange, Strange Land
- I Find āEmployment!ā
- Bless Me, Fatherā¦
- Long Binh Jail
- Working with the Mama-sans
- A Flood of Mail!
- Quite a Ride!
- My Parents Send a Lawyer!
- Eddy Putnam
- Guarding the Dump
- The Last Muster
- A Generalās Lament
- Graves Registration
- Down and Out
- Watching It Burn
- The Lackey
- Father Mantz
- The Hero
- The Way Home
- Mother and Child Reunion
- Postscript