No Time To Cry

<p>The majority of the soldiers serving in Vietnam were draftees. Back then a classification of 1A meant the chance of getting drafted was about 99% and the chance you would end up in Vietnam was around 90%. </p><p><br></p><p>Of the over 58000 names etched on the Vietnam War Memorial the majority were boys just out of high school brothers who never had a chance to live out their lives their dreams. Not to mention a forgotten list of wounded and dismembered to the tune of 304000. Of the 2.7 million who served in Vietnam one out of every 10 soldiers ended up a casualty. Amputations or crippling wounds were 300 times higher than World War II. Over 75000 Vietnam veterans are severely disabled. </p><p>And not a single thank you or welcome home we missed you. </p><p><br></p><p>On Memorial Day even today president after president honors the WWII Korean Iraq and Afghanistan veterans but the Vietnam veteran does not even get an honorable mention. </p><p><br></p><p>There is another list of names that no one sees. These names are not written down or etched into a wall nor do they have a monument anywhere. They are the names of the survivors who left Vietnam physically but not mentally never fully returning home. Completely changed a whole different person a stranger alone in a crowded world they could not wait to get back to. </p><p><br></p><p>This is a true story told thru the eyes of one of those survivors. </p><p><br></p><p>Hopefully writing this book will help put the ghosts in his head to rest and bring to light how badly Vietnam veterans were treated when they returned home.</p>