Vernon Brewer

Frenchy's Whore (eBook, ePUB)

A teenage paratrooper goes from high school to the point of the spear.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

I couldn't and didn't know everyone in a company of over a hundred men. Some that I did know have passed on, or died in battle in Vietnam. In other cases I could not find the individuals in order to ask their permission, and have assigned them pseudonyms. This book is just a fragment of a huge tapestry of diverse experiences lived by millions of young men and women. It might be very similar to or different from the reader's own experiences in that nasty little war, or those in other accounts. I mean no one any harm or defamation. I have nothing but the utmost admiration for all who served there. I will always love and honor my unit, the 173d Airborne Brigade (SEP). The young fighters of Alpha Company were the very cream of America's crop. I am thinking I probably will owe a thanks to my old XO in this revision, as he is privy to good info on some of the names, dates and AOs of the revision of this book. Those after-action reports have been invaluable. Thank you, COL Henry Persons...Sir. I realize that the use of objectionable racial slurs in the dialogue will be very uncomfortable for some readers, and for valid reasons. That said, this was how the men talked in Vietnam. My first duty to the men who served is to tell the truth, not a sanitized version of it. Combat situations and environments do strange and often harsh things to people. I report the words as best I remember them, and ask the reader to understand that including them should not in any way be taken as a modern endorsement of such language. It just happened, and I present the reality rather than try to pretend it was otherwise. I consider that my highest duty--to my old comrades, and even adversaries, of all heritages. This is a true story. I try to paint what was seen and felt. The dates and details are fact. This will close that chapter of my life for me, I hope; having sought out others who were there with me, and accepted their counsel in correcting errors in the original manuscript, I seek now only

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781098382179
• Artikelnr.: 62145290

Autorenporträt

Vernon E, Brewer II is a multiple Purple Heart recipient who was medevacked from Vietnam in 1969. He spent seven months in Fort Devin's Army Hospital recovering from a booby trap wound to his left thigh. In 1981, his first draft of this book won the State University of New York's Writers' Forum Scholarship and was accepted for publication by the first publisher to which he submitted the book, selling out two printings with little advertising except word of mouth. His poetry has been published by Old Dominion, and the intro to his web page was featured by AOL on its news site after Brewer allowed a fellow Vietnam Vet to use it on another web page. In 1981 Brewer, an avid skydiver and motorcyclist, skydived the Lower 48 states to bring media attention to the dangers of Agent Orange. The Stars and Stripes invited him to write his story, with a lead on the front page and 5,000 words taking up the entire centerfold. Brewer recently traveled 14,000 miles visiting the graves of all those paratroopers who served with him and were killed in action during his tour with Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 173d Airborne Brigade. Brewer donated 100% of all his royalties from this book's first printing to The National Veterans Foundation, and gave a portion of the proceeds from the second printing to the Sky Soldiers' Memorial in Fort Benning, Georgia. 50% of Brewer's royalties from this E book release will also go to the Sky Soldiers' Memorial. Brewer currently resides in an A-frame tucked way back into the Finger Lakes National Forest in upstate New York.