War: Feral Hearts Book One

✍ Scribed by Knight, Gwen; Butler, R. E.

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 87 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

This book tells of Dennis Hendrix's comical to gruesome experiences as a teenage Army grunt, growing up hard and fast in the jungles of Vietnam. It's a true story about naivety, patriotism, and heroism morphing into a mix of cynicism and hope. Along the way, you meet a sixteen-year-old whose military dad lies to get his kid into front line service; a paratrooper who survives a 1300-foot jump with two failed chutes; a scout dog that can't keep pace with soldiers hauling 100 pound loads; a deranged murderer; a Buddhist priest who is assassinated; soldiers who collect strings of enemy ears as their tickets to the front of the chow line; children who are pointlessly killed; a knife that keeps returning under bizarre circumstances; sad, feral natives who have no idea why a war is being fought; a U.S. firing squad; and buddies who split a fortune in Vietnamese currency with Hendrix. To top it all off, there are the circumstances under which Hendrix earned two Purple Hearts, and a no-nonsense recounting of mystical experiences that happened to him while he was a paratrooper. There are scores of books about U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War; however, this one covers incidents such as these and includes the names, ranks, hometowns, and dates of death of every member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade killed in action.;The light -- The making of a soldie[r] -- A new beginning -- The bomb -- The messenger -- The arrival -- The trail -- The priest -- The knife -- Blessed are the children -- Dead man Hubbard -- Wounded in action -- The Saint Valentine's Day heart -- Shoot the prisoner -- Poor man/rich man -- Killed in action.