The Year of the Lieutenant - Harrington, John
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In September 1967, with the Vietnam War raging, Lieutenant Jim Doyle arrives at a small United States Air Force radar site in Nakhon Sarang, a town in central Thailand. He is the new administrative officer for the site, where the work is in support of the bombing of North Vietnam and Laos. As the year wears on, Doyle must not only deal with the internal politics of the site's leaders, but also with troubled officers and airmen, his own conflicted feelings about the war, and his entanglements with several Thai women, some bawdy, and some uplifting. His confused emotions lead him to become…mehr

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In September 1967, with the Vietnam War raging, Lieutenant Jim Doyle arrives at a small United States Air Force radar site in Nakhon Sarang, a town in central Thailand. He is the new administrative officer for the site, where the work is in support of the bombing of North Vietnam and Laos. As the year wears on, Doyle must not only deal with the internal politics of the site's leaders, but also with troubled officers and airmen, his own conflicted feelings about the war, and his entanglements with several Thai women, some bawdy, and some uplifting. His confused emotions lead him to become awkwardly involved in another lieutenant's romantic situation, one that ends badly for everyone. At the end of his year-long assignment, Doyle leaves Nakhon Sarang and Thailand disappointed in his inability to have made sense of his experience, a feeling that will continue to trouble him for years to come. Although ultimately a sad tale, the story is also a portrait of young Americans dropped into an exotic culture in wartime, portraying them with humor, sometimes risqué and sometimes farcical, but always with an underlying empathy.
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Audacity!How dare I? Who am I to think that I could ever actually write a book?Well, whatever, I went for it. I've read thousands of fiction novels and have often thought about the challenge. I've also been told that I should write a book. So here you have it, which begs another question I must ask myself; why? What is the end-goal? What is the objective I'd like to accomplish as a result of putting forth all of this tremendous effort and expense? I respond to this quandary through introspection. I look and see some of the awful things that I've been through and I'd like to be able to contribute toward their ultimate eradication. Most notably, to me, and I'm dreadfully ashamed to say so, as I'm first-hand experienced with it, is homelessness, which, in retrospect, is nothing compared to having had the ultimate tragedy in my life of dealing with Alzheimer's Disease.As an answer to these questions that I've asked myself, while creating an exciting, suspenseful, entertaining and perhaps provocative story, I've hoped to bring some attention to their issues within the pages of this novel. The writing touches upon not only the two that I've mentioned, but also other socio-economic issues affecting everyday American citizens...every day.It is my sincerest hope that with The Help of God and God Willing, my effort will not be for naught; that somehow, some way, through whatever (if ever) profit this may yield, a percentage of your purchase can go toward contributing to these causes.In my wildest dreams, if this is successful, I hope to establish a dual-purpose foundation; one concentration battling Alzheimer's Disease, and the other, the blight of homelessness in America.All this being said, please, forgive me for my audacity... ...how dare I write a book?John Harrington