登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Journey Back from Vietnam
Wayne Purinton
其他書名
One Soldier's Long Road Home from War
出版Langdon Street Press, 2011
主題Biography & Autobiography / MilitaryBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsHistory / Military / Vietnam War
ISBN19367820659781936782062
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=njjSwAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋When Wayne Purinton was 19, feeling it was his patriotic duty, he decided to volunteer for service to his country. Soon after, Wayne-a gentle, innocent farm boy from Kansas who had never shot at anything bigger than a pheasant-was flung into the jungles of Vietnam and told to track down and kill the enemies of his country. The horrors he experienced-shooting Viet Cong until it became a dehumanizing, almost casual affair, watching his peers gunned down around him-pervaded, and after his return, he didn't speak of Vietnam again even to those closest to him. After a thirty-year silence on the entire subject, Wayne Purinton rediscovered a lost chapter of his life in the form of letters he had written to his parents and brothers during his time spent overseas. The letters served to reopen a flood of memories from the past, and he delved into them with a passion and a mind bent on making reparations for his past in order to benefit the future. The resulting book, Journey Back From Vietnam, is at once a first-hand account of historical wartime events, a detailed case study in one person's struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and a heroic internal struggle to cleanse the demons from his past through humanitarian efforts in Vietnam. Turning tragedy into triumph in the truest sense of the word, Wayne has spent his years since the war channeling his knowledge, experiences, frustrations, and hope into the education of countless children. Through Wayne's teaching program "Once Enemies, Now Friends", he is helping today's younger generation understand the debilitating consequences of war and PTSD. More importantly, with courage and honor, Wayne takes his tragedy and turns it into a meaningful journey of healing and rebuilding. Book jacket.