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Author's
Note: Homeless veterans are a deep
national concern, and a telling monument to this
war, along with the thousands wounded in body
and spirit, maimed and suffering violent PTSD
episodes... forever! Yet knowing well the
insidious and destructive characteristics of war
that sends men's value systems reeling, bringing
on that vile beast called PTSD that we would not
wish on our worst enemy... yet we still feel the
need to send our sons and daughters into the
fray...
About
Author...
In 1966-67, Gary Jacobson served with B Co
2nd/7th 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam as a combat infantryman and is the recipient of the Purple
Heart.
Gary, who resides in Idaho writes stories he
hopes are never forgotten, perhaps compelled by
a Vietnamese legend that says, "All poets are
full of silver threads that rise inside them as
the moon grows large." So Gary says he
writes because "It is that these silver
threads are words poking at me � I must let them
out. I must! I write for my brothers who cannot
bear to talk of what they've seen and to educate
those who haven't the foggiest idea about the
effect that the horrors of war have on
boys-next-door."
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