From Vietnam to Hell: Interviews With Victims of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Shirley Dicks
“For many Americans the Vietnam War is over and long forgotten, but for thousands of veterans, they still live the horror of this war. In flashbacks, nightmares and other symptoms, they relive the time they spent in the jungle. Some turn to alcohol, others to drugs, to blot the inner agony that has no name but many faces. Some mistreat their wives and children; some withdraw from society altogether.
“This book tells the stories of some of these Vietnam veterans who have been to hell and back, and the wives who stood by their men. The stories are heartbreaking and meant to inform people about post-traumatic stress disorder. Some of these men are on death row. They were taught to kill women and children; they were taught that life wasn’t important; then they were never debriefed once back home. One day they were in the jungles of Vietnam; the next they were back in the States.”
Publisher: McFarland
Paperback: 144 pages
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