If you have an interest in history and would like to read about what it was like to "be there", there was a book I read repeatedly and gleaned insight from and would like to recomend. It's called "Chickenhawk" by Robert C Mason.My dad picked up this book when I was in high school. He would do that... he would pick up something that would have to do with the conflict like a board game or a book, then lay it aside unused. I guess he felt he was ready to face that part of him and discovered over and over again he wasn't ready to dredge up those feelings and deal with them.I, on the otherhand, was intensly curious about Vietnam. My dad went thru that crap. Unfortunatly, he spoke very little of it, and at times acted as if he was ashamed to have been there. To date, he has only told me 2 stories from that time in his life. I grabbed this book off his shelf and devoured it.My dad wasn't a Huey pilot like this guy, but it gave much the much needed insight as to what he went thru. After I read it, I stopped asking... I understood.Anyway, I thought some of you who actually read might like to look into it. Amazon still sells the book, so it appears it's still available. Hope you guys like it.

I wish I knew someone who went through Vietnam. My uncle got stationed in Germany, so in a way he was lucky i guess.

Both my grandpas and 2 uncles were in Nam. 1 was a Slick pilot, the others were grunts. All of them lived through their ToD, but none of them talk about it much either.