When I Turned Nineteen: A Vietnam War Memoir

Its the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3/1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons fathers husbands or brothers whod enlisted or been drafted from all over the United States and whod all come from different backgrounds. We came together and formed a brotherhood that will last through time.I share my experiences about weeks of boredom and minutes to hours of terror and surviving the heat carrying a 60-pound rucksack monsoons a forest fire a typhoon building a firebase fear death and fighting the enemy while mentally physically and morally exhausted.