The War You've Always Wanted

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>There's a tricky twist in Mike's new book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>The War You've Always Wanted</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> and that hits home with me.</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(26 26 26 1)> </strong><strong style=color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>-Capt. Dale Dye Combat Correspondent USMC (Ret.) Author Actor and Filmmaker</strong></p><p>...<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>takes you deep into the frustration and horror of the Vietnam War through the eyes of characters you won't soon forget.</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(26 26 26 1)>-Terry Golway Author of <em>I Never Did Like Politics</em> and <em>So Others Might Live</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Pat Dolan's father has a box. In it are treasures from Jimmy Dolan's service in World War II-his photos his medals his memories. But ten-year-old Pat can't understand why his father refuses to look in the box. After all the war was a grand adventure wasn't it?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Determined to serve in the Army like his father Pat enlists nine years later-but it's 1972 and the American military is withdrawing from Vietnam after seven years of futile combat. As an Army combat correspondent surrounded by people growing more desperate by the day young Dolan quickly learns how bleak the South's prospects are. He is forced to witness the slow steady death of a nation.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>When Pat is wounded in action he wonders if he will live long enough to fill a box of his own. Are there any treasures to be found in a country as fragile as this?</span></p>