Bulletproof: In Vietnam

Poignant and scary - Norman Bates editor. It made me cry it made me laugh. I couldnt put it down. - Jackie Arnold editor. Baby! What BABY?! - Marisha Hall the authors wife - overheard as she proofread one of the chapters. I see you tomorrow Beeelle you Number One Beeelle! You bulletproof GI! Beeelle - Lum hooch-maid Quang Tri Combat Base Vietnam 1970. You boom-boom GI? . . . . Or maybe you Funny-Boy? - The Pimp pimp age six DaNang Vietnam 1971. The writing started as a simple answer to a cousins emailed question about the war. It was sort of like someone had distracted the little Dutch boy and caused him to pull his finger from the hole in the dike thus letting the flood waters flow. That was the story of Lum the first chapter written. Then much later after I had called the book finished the first time I awoke in the middle of the night one time and realized that I had finished the whole darned book without having written the first chapter yet. I think you can read it in most any order you want if you are somewhat familiar with the jargon. Each chapter pretty much stands on its own.