Download or read book Hootch 8 written by L. Paul Brief and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a New York City bachelor about to complete his medical training, the last place Paul Brief thought he'd end up was Vietnam. The year was 1969, and Brief, an ambitious if irreverent orthopedic surgeon, was too busy enjoying the fruits of the sexual revolution to consider the possibility of being drafted. In Hootch 8, Brief details his sudden arrival at a naval hospital outside Danang, along with dozens of his fellow soldier-doctors, following a grueling stint in boot camp, where they're taught not only how to heal, but how to fight. Through Brief's eyes, we witness the brutal realities of wartime medicine, with its endless stench of blood and steady stream of double amputees. Along the way, we're introduced to the cast of characters who become the key to his survival in Nam. Shot through with humor and compassion, Hootch 8 is a surprisingly moving account of one man's transformative encounter with the tragedies and absurdities of war.
Download or read book Simon Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And Reference Book written by Lark Productions LLC and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-04-05 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crossword companion with a contemporary edge: a hip, one-of-a-kind reference that offers up-to-date terms, names in the news, facts about pop culture, and other tidbits that comprise most puzzles today.
Download or read book Source Material on the Vietnam Era Veteran written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Vietnam Era veteran has often been the center of a storm of controversy and many of the articles herein reflect this. The source material ... is intended to present a representative spectrum of views concerning these veterans ... a collection of diverse viewpoints which will stimulate those who read it to learn more about our newest generation of veterans and perhaps to arrive at their own conclusions."--Preface.
Download or read book The Vietnam Veteran in Contemporary Society written by United States. Veterans Administration. Department of Medicine and Surgery and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crazy 8 s written by James Karantonis and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1967 during the Vietnam War. Zack Tonakis (White) is a young medic/psych tech who along with his buddy, Robert Turner, (Black) is assigned to the psychiatric ward of a stateside Army hospital. The ward houses young soldiers who are depressed; paranoid; obsessive-compulsive; a sociopath; and even a catatonic. Others, like Joker Berkowski who's described as "crazy funny," are there for a "failure to adjust" to Army life. A major, not of the medical profession, is brought in on temporary assignment while a qualified replacement is sought. The major, a short-timer, wants nothing to jeopardize his coming retirement. His right hand, Sergeant Helms, views patients as cowards and phonies. An inept ward psychiatrist is of little help to the patients. A patient escapes during a ball game prompting the major to shut down all outdoor activities. His mantra becomes: "Keep them invisible." The first story, "The Ball Game", introduces the soldiers who will have their own stories told in the collection. The main protagonist, psych tech Zack Tonakis, will follow the soldiers throughout the novel. Zack carries his own demons from the past.
Download or read book Connecting Times written by Norman Harris and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Merriam Webster s Crossword Puzzle Dictionary written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The solution for crossword puzzle lovers, with complete word lists and easy-to-use organization. Comprehensive coverage. 300,000 answer words grouped alphabetically and by letter count.
Download or read book Imprint written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Band Never Played for Us written by Ronald G. Goddard and published by Lulu Publishing Services. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his troop transport ship left for Vietnam there were no patriotic farewells. It would continue to be so for the marines of Golf Company, 2nd Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines as Goddard recounts their experiences in the rice paddies and jungles from DaNang to the DMZ.
Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.
Download or read book The New York Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dry Manhattan written by Michael A. Lerner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.
Download or read book Only by the Hand of God written by H J (Duke) Petmecky CW03 USN, Retired and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only by the Hand of God By H J (Duke) Petmecky CW03 USN, Retired and Earl Boutell “This is a war story; a tale that takes you along with me through 18 months in the jungles, rivers, canals, and military facilities in Viet Nam. It was a period of conflict in which I was exposed to, not only the risk of death, but to the powerful influence of my Creator.” Harrowing, exciting and sorrowful by turns, Only by the Hand of God is a powerful story of loss and redemption. Written with a sure hand full of vigor and also a touch of rough humor by H J (Duke) Petmecky and his co-author Earl Boutell, this book offers its readers a graphic, colorful, life-changing experience.
Download or read book Dry Laws and Wet Politicians written by Harold David Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vietnam Beyond written by Gerald E. Augustine and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam Beyond By: Gerald E. Augustine “Vietnam Beyond” is not only a photographic accounting of a soldier’s time while serving in a front-line unit in the infantry; it is a study of human nature. When rank has its’ privileges, not only in the military, but in civilian life as well, you will learn how a person with “power’ will use this power to his advantage over someone at his most vulnerable time in their life. You will read how officers and sergeants use their rank to their benefit. You will also learn how attorneys and even a senator used the legal system to their advantage when having control over someone when he is most vulnerable. “Vietnam Beyond” is also a study of the criminal act of the spraying of herbicides by our government not only on the jungles of Vietnam, but on the civilians and our servicemen as well. The result tells of the after effects on the author and his family to this day. And most of all, “Vietnam Beyond” tells how a combat soldier endured traumatizing events that he brought home with him. Those events drive him to be the best that he can be at whatever he encounters and to continuously defeat those demons.
Download or read book The Shadow of Death written by Felix Steele and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix Gideon Steele, III was born June 27, 1944 in Selma, Alabama where he lived until graduating High School, when in 1962 the family moved to Arizona. A er two years of college in 1964 he joined the United States Marine Corps where he spent the next five years flying helicopters. He also flew helicopters for Air America for a year a er the service. Returning to Arizona in 1971 he finished college and graduated from Arizona State University in 1975. He settled in Pinetop, Arizona in 1976 where he gained employment in the Land Surveying profession. He lives here today with his wife and teenage son and continues to work in Land Surveying. There have been many books written about the Viet Nam War covering such subjects as the ground war, the air war, the great battles and operations as well as the political aspects of the event. Over 60,000 Americans and 1.4 million Vietnamese soldiers, sailors and airmen and Marines made the supreme sacrifice during this war of insurgency. This book attempts to describe the horrors of the helicopter crews who spent most of their efforts saving lives of wounded Americans, Vietnamese, and even enemy soldiers. The author survived over 600 missions as a helicopter pilot during the period when the DMZ was being militarized and the battle of Khe Sanh, when the U. S. Marines took the area away from the North Vietnamese regulars, as well as many missions of mercy to save lives in areas where small skirmishes were the order of the day. Not many people have heard of the H-34 helicopter because the military historians have largely ignored it due to the desire of the promoters to tout the newer developments in rotary wing phenomena like the ubiquitous huey and Boeing Vertol H-46 and Chinook models. The vast majority of lives saved during the periods mentioned above were saved in the H-34 helicopter. The crews of these obsolete flying machines were some of the best men to ever come into the field of aviation.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-07-31 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
