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02321aam a2200349Ki 4500 001 2C42020CFF7F11E48613ECADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20190815012642 008 141119s2015 vaua 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1937907325 020 $a 9781937907327 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d OCP $d CGP $d OCLCF $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3562.L68 $b V54 2015 082 04 $a [Fic] $2 23 100 1 $a Lliteras, D. S., $e author. 245 10 $a VietMan : $b a novel / $c D. S. Lliteras. 246 3 $a Viet man 264 1 $a Faber, Virginia : $b Rainbow Ridge Books, $c [2015] 300 $a 193 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a Viet Man is about the transformation of a young man who enlisted in the Navy during the Viet Nam War, was trained as a hospital corpsman, was transferred into the Marine Corps, then sent to Viet Nam where he joined the elite First Recon. It is a first person narrative of alternating episodes experienced in the rear and in the bush. In the rear, Doc encounters a straw-haired Midwestern farm boy who shows him how to prepare a meal of long-rats and Loopie, a Puerto Rican from the Bronx who shares a guilt torn confession that borders on confabulation. In the bush, Doc experiences the terror of accidentally releasing a live grenade among his men, of rushing to rescue a wounded marine, and of sharing a quiet conversation in a bunker with Trang, a South Vietnamese soldier. After being assigned to the Recon Dive Team and attending the Navy diving school in the Philippines, he returns to Viet Nam where he engages in numerous combat dives and river operations. At the end of his tour, he is processed out of the military. And upon his return to his hometown as a veteran, he faces a jarring reception of insolence, indifference, and fragmented flashbacks. 611 27 $a Vietnam War (1961-1975). 648 7 $a 1961 - 1975 $2 fast 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y 1961-1969 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a United States. 650 0 $a War stories. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 3 952 $l NDPD953 $d 20180713051256.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20160702014341.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20150902020252.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2C42020CFF7F11E48613ECADDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search