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Twelve years later--11/11/82: Me, my wife Kate and eldest son Nate during the dedication of The Wall in Washington, D.C. At Ronnie’s home we were served steak and shrimp fondue, paper thin slices we cooked in boiling alcohol and sugar. It was delicious. Few of the Americans appreciated the great sacrifice our host made—likely costing him a month’s wages. This, perhaps, was symbolic of American attitudes throughout our involvement. https://www.peakingat70.com/lets-talk-america/2017/9/28/burning-history-slogging-through monthly 0.5 2017-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d29bedb8a79b902b3bd060/1506597677428-W3KSE6IEJ08GSYOQVVME/FB+Whip+pix2+VN+mag-jpeg.jpg Let's Talk America - Burning History: Slogging Through… Firebase Whip: On the southern edge of the A Shau Valley October 1970. 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Photo by the author. https://www.peakingat70.com/lets-talk-america/2017/9/24/burning-history-preparing-the-battlefield-preparing-the-viewers-mind monthly 0.5 2017-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d29bedb8a79b902b3bd060/1506285208690-RCBT04ULE6VCP4UYT78W/Monsoon+flood.jpg Let's Talk America - Burning History: Preparing the Battlefield; Preparing the Viewer’s Mind When a typhoon hit the northern part of South Vietnam in late 1970 many of the combat operations in western I Corps were suspended while troops from the 101st Airborne Division aided villagers in the lowlands. 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Photo by the author. https://www.peakingat70.com/lets-talk-america/2017/8/20/mt-baker-wonders-crevasses-beneath-the-surface-paradigm-shifts-charlottesville-and-1-november-1963 monthly 0.5 2017-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d29bedb8a79b902b3bd060/1503241402971-84GO8QJ4L56K4AD98266/Baker-6+wildflrsPeak.jpg Let's Talk America - Mt. Baker: Wonders, Crevasses, Beneath the Surface, Paradigm Shifts, Charlottesville and 1 November 1963 As we broke above the treeline the ridge was a tapestry of wildflowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d29bedb8a79b902b3bd060/1503241183017-QOHG7JTB16R1K8RV8SHN/Cara+a.m.+at+Bow.JPG Let's Talk America - Mt. Baker: Wonders, Crevasses, Beneath the Surface, Paradigm Shifts, Charlottesville and 1 November 1963 Cara at dawn taking photos of the blue herons. 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There have been a number of excellent books about Vietnam . . . but none has managed to communicate in such detail the day-to-day pain, discomfort, frustration and exhilaration of the American military experience in Vietnam as well . . . Del Vecchio has made the jungle real and terrifying.” —The New York Times Book Review A work that has served as a literary cornerstone for the Vietnam generation, The 13th Valley follows the strange and terrifying Vietnam combat experiences of James Chelini, a telephone-systems installer who finds himself an infantryman in territory controlled by the North Vietnamese Army. Spiraling deeper and deeper into a world of conflict and darkness, this harrowing account of Chelini's plunge and immersion into jungle warfare traces his evolution from a semipacifist to an all-out warmonger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d29bedb8a79b902b3bd060/1599445701345-N678ZF8NJ60C75AM2TRC/FortheSake.jpg The Store - For the Sake of All Living Things “Harrowing….[Del Vecchio] has added another memorable book to the literature of the Southeast Asian conflict.” —The New York Times Book Review In this unflinching and unforgettable epic saga, Del Vecchio re-creates the violence and horror of Vietnam’s parallel tragedy—the Cambodian holocaust—as seen through the eyes of a Cambodian family and the American adviser whose fate becomes irrevocably linked with theirs. A sweeping tale of savagery and survival that pits parents and children against both the North Vietnamese invaders and the unprecedented ferocity of the Khmer Rouge, For the Sake of All Living Things is an unrelenting, ultimately inspiring chronicle of conflict and redemption in the killing fields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d29bedb8a79b902b3bd060/1599447448454-F8UCX3OQ1HXB1QXZ3Y1P/Geronimo.jpg The Store - Code Word: Geronimo The leader of SEAL Team 6 uttered, "Geronimo", and the world let out a sigh of relief. The symbol of ultimate evil was no more. "Code Word: Geronimo" is the amazing, moment-by-moment story of the clandestine raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 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