Ed Nielsen
ASIN: B004LROP7C
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages: 240
“The platoon sergeant was lax and didn’t hit his quick release. All he did was sit down. The rucksack was still on his back and held him up in a sitting position. The enemy just riddled him. It was terrible. We watched it and could see him jump every time the enemy fired. There was nothing we could do. We couldn’t get to him.”Warriors is a collection of first-person accounts from nine guys who walked the walk during the Vietnam War. As you read their stories, you’ll feel the stifling heat and humidity, hunker down in their bunkers or crouch in the jungle as enemy fire whizzes overhead. Warriors will tell you all about the politics that made their mission so much more difficult, as well as the occasional incompetent leader that made their day-to-day survival tenuous. But the narratives are leavened with occasional humor not normally expected in such stories:“A man in my platoon had a ...