Product Description
Lost Between War and Home is the story of a Vietnam veteran and his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder, what caused it and how it affected his life. More so, how it continued in his life and led to writing this story. This is a tragic disorder that not only affected the men of the Vietnam era but will affect the men of wars to follow and needs to be understood. There is an amazing emotional relevance between the soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq and the soldiers who returned from Vietnam.

In the early 1980s, we still understood little about delayed stress syndrome. It was being suffered by many veterans of the Vietnam War. This was a war unlike none the United States had ever participated in before. There were no front lines, there were no safe bases to go to. As soldiers, we were asked to do things totally against our American ideals and morals. How could anyone at home ever understand what we had been through?

Within this story, the accounts of Vietnam are factual, as are the people who entered my life during those ten years after and were there for me. These are the people who tried to understand and I soon realized brought me to the healing process. The medium to tell the story is drawn from a time before I went to Vietnam or knew many of the people within the story. My tour of duty was in 1967 and 1968, where I served as a point man for the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry of the 25th Division.