Exit Wounds
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Exit Wounds

A Vietnam Elegy

  1. 305 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Exit Wounds

A Vietnam Elegy

About this book

Exit Wounds: A Vietnam Elegy is an intimate, boots-on-the-ground memoir that chronicles one captain's brutal experience in the Vietnam War.

On October 19, 1965, American Special Forces in Vietnam came under attack at their camp at Plei Me. This marked the first major confrontation between the North Vietnamese and US armies during the war. Throughout six days of constant hostile fire, Captain Lanny Hunter sorted the seriously wounded from the dead and saved those comrades-in-arms he could. For his actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

In Exit Wounds, Hunter recalls his tour in the central highlands of Vietnam in 1965/66 at the bloody interface of medicine and combat. Paralleling this story is his return in 1997 to find and help his Montagnard interpreter, Y-Kre Mlo, after ten years in a communist reeducation camp. This pilgrimage takes Hunter back to old haunts and battlegrounds—and to a war now seen through a very different lens.

Peopled with those who were dedicated, courageous, gentle, proud, profane, and a little mad, this book explores what happens when leaders place personal ambition over honor, and America's "moral high ground" is soaked with the blood of its young men and women. So much more than a memoir, Exit Wounds is a poetic and profound story that reflects on the human condition, duty, honor, faithfulness, and how the scars remain long after the war is over.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Subscribe
  3. Praise for Lanny Hunter
  4. Also by Lanny Hunter
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Dedication
  9. Preface
  10. 1. Night Medevac
  11. 2. Letter from a Ghost
  12. 3. MÇ«i
  13. 4. Going Back
  14. 5. Ghost Army
  15. 6. Hồ ChĂ­ Minh City
  16. 7. The Presidential Palace and the American Embassy
  17. 8. The American War Crimes Museum
  18. 9. The Cathedral Notre Dame
  19. 10. Purple Hearts Held in Reserve
  20. 11. De Oppresso Liber
  21. 12. Y-Kre Mlo
  22. 13. The Reality of My War
  23. 14. The Damnedest Story You’ve Ever Heard
  24. 15. Lake BiĂȘn HĂČa
  25. 16. War as Routine
  26. 17. Actionable Intelligence
  27. 18. Duc Co
  28. 19. Guardians at the Gate
  29. 20. Know Your Enemy
  30. 21. Hearts and Minds
  31. 22. No Words, No Tears
  32. 23. Fulro
  33. 24. Camp Tet Number Three
  34. 25. One Cow
  35. 26. Doctor Vinh Phulon
  36. 27. Broken Brain
  37. 28. Foregone Conclusion
  38. 29. I Knew You Not Forget
  39. 30. Pleiku
  40. 31. Don’t Come in from the South—It’s Murder
  41. 32. Zapped under Our Own Flag
  42. 33. Silver Stick under Siege
  43. 34. Combat and Medicine
  44. 35. Letter to Lisa
  45. 36. Skyraider Down
  46. 37. Volleyball and Choppers
  47. 38. Detachment C-2
  48. 39. When Will They Ever Learn?
  49. 40. All Gone
  50. 41. Saint Crispin’s Day
  51. 42. Tracks of Tanks and Tears
  52. 43. Vaporous Nightmare
  53. 44. United States Very Famous in the World, But Selfish
  54. 45. The War Unhinged
  55. 46. Proud, Profane, and a Little Mad
  56. 47. The Orderly Departure Program
  57. 48. The Cemetery for Those of the City Who Sacrificed Themselves for the Country
  58. 49. The Vietnamese
  59. 50. The Walking Wounded
  60. 51. John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center
  61. 52. The Vietnam War Memorial
  62. 53. Irrevocably Linked
  63. 54. Signposts
  64. 55. Last Letter to Joey
  65. 56. The Unfathomable Experience of War
  66. 57. The Death of Y-Kre Mlo
  67. Epigraph
  68. About the Author
  69. Subscribe