Letters to the Jungle: A Memoir of my Family’s War
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This memoir is “Call of Duty” meets “Little Women.”
In 1965, my father left our family in Oklahoma for a one-year tour in Vietnam. I was nine years old. Each week, my grandmother, my mom, my two older sisters, and I wrote a letter to him. My dad wrote a few back to us in return. These letters, over 250 of them, are the foundation of this book.
We chatted about church and weather and arithmetic tests. Baseball, golf, and county fairs. TV shows, movies, and birthdays. We also wrote of snipers, terrorist bombings, violent street protests, and brutal murders in our own home town. Mass killings in Chicago and Austin. Major troop buildup and mounting casualties.
It was a year of mind-numbing boredom and absolute terror. No place was safe. The upheaval in Vietnam and America paralleled the shredding of my family.
This is the story of that one chaotic year, when our faith in family and country was tested.
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Paperback available at The Twig Bookshop at the Pearl. Paperback and Kindle available at Amazon.com