Scenes from a Vietnam-Era Diary

The year author K.G. McLaughlin graduated from high school 1967 was known as The Summer of Love by an ever-increasing hippie movement that had been sweeping the country since shortly after the John Kennedy assassination in 1963. It was the best summer of his life. But that ended abruptly he joined the Marines and was guaranteed a trip to Vietnam. In Scenes from a Vietnam-Era Diary he chronicles his personal odyssey from a safe and content life in Cape Cod to a Marine Corps boot camp culture shock that unknowingly at the time was a gentle prelude to the hellish world of being a frontline combat soldier in Vietnam. Raw and uncomproming McLaughlin presents a real-time journal-based narrative describing combat while spending months in the hot waterlogged bug-infested jungle with one close call after another dodging bullets bombs and mines. Scenes from a Vietnam-Era Diary offers a multifaceted narrative of life death and the unspeakable horrors of serving in the Vietnam War.