Free Fire Zone - short stories by Vietnam Veterans
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This book couldnt have appeared more precisely on cue. As the nasty shadow of post-Vietnam retrospection seemed about to ruin TV dinner, our attention was turned to the POWsthey had Cornish game hen tonight, would they be impotent, theyre flirting with stewardesses. Cameras zoomed in to catch candid and personal shots of a wifes first call from her husband in years, without a twinge of conscience on either side. Free Fire Zone comes like a brisk light rain at a voyeurs picnic.
These twenty-four stories are published by 1st Casualty Press, the group of Vietnam veterans that brought out the highly praised collection of veterans poetry Winning Hearts and Minds. They were our surrogates who, whether we agreed to it or not, carried out Vietnam policy in the name of the American audience. But they are victims as well by the same inexorable logic that dulls the axe as the wood is chopped.
If Aeschylus is right In war, truth is the first casualty then there are a great number of things we have to unlearn before we can see, as these writers do, behind the pasteboard mask the demythicized reality.
Small softcover , pre owned condition , front cover slightly damaged, 208 pages