Part I: Vietnam diary, 1967-1968 ; Part II: breaking the silence of the night. A violent sprint -- The awful twilight -- Breaking the silence -- Confessing the sins of America -- Kennedy -- Expatriate -- Return to America -- The sea lodge -- A simple talk in a country graveyard -- Memorial service -- A letter to my mother and father -- Wounding -- In the presence of my enemy -- Alone in our rooms -- Breaking the crucifix -- The black spot ; Part III: the long journey home. San Francisco: the Paris of the West -- The art of healing -- The war is over: a celebration of life -- Tracers -- Mona -- A fool for love -- Locked steel doors and wire windows -- Escape from the psychiatric ward -- Massapequa -- Return to LA -- Reckoning -- Breakdown -- Strange days -- Darkness - A new dawn.
Summary:
"Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July and one of the country's most powerful and passionate antiwar voices, completes his Vietnam Trilogy with this poignant, inspiring, and deeply personal elegy to America" -- Publisher's description.
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