A patriot from childhood, a kid who spent time with friends playing army games, and a high school graduate who entered the service for his country. His dedication to his country and serving in the Vietnam war was crushed after he experienced treatment in VA hospitals and saw how government officials treated returning Vietnam veterans.

After returning home to his parents he championed the cause for exposing the entire Vietnam war situation and hospitalization experiences, and then to home life with his family launched him onto public life and an adventure of exposing the truth to the public.

His journey from childhood, to war, to inj

Readers who are not squeamish and want to be brought into the world of war and politics with raw scenes and realist up close experiences would become involved in this true story.

The details of every even showed me life which otherwise would have remained hidden. I learned the details about a person disillusioned after the truth hit hime squarely in the face. I could see, hear and feel the emotions.

It was difficult experiencing through emotional words that jumped off the pages the scenes of his hospitalization and how he was treated during these times and the times he went public and told his side of the story to the TV crews.

I can relate to his experiences using a wheelchair because I also am a wheelchair user. I wanted to do this review so that people who wanted to know about history and how Vietnam vets were treated could get an up close and personal view through the eyes of someone when went there and did that.

I felt the veterans should have been treated as human beings and nor as trash that should be thrown away or at least not neglected.

The writing style kept me interested. It gave me the insight into a persons experience in a way that I could feel, see, understand, and remember.

Reading this book took me through each step of the writers life as if I were watching it like a movie and also as if I was experiencing the events and emotions.

If you are squeamish, read with caution, but if you can manage to keep being squish at bay, it is a valuable experience worth having.

This book is full of action and adventure, a roller coster ride through life with emotions flowing like electricity. It is a story of defeat of patriotism and a renewed focus to expose the hidden truth. It is a story of humanity over coming challenges and gaining purpose.

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