The Body Burning Detail

Memoir of a Marine Artilleryman in Vietnam

Bill Jones (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

202 Seiten

2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7517-6 (ISBN)

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A poignantly written and heartfelt memoir that recounts the author's hair raising - and occasionally hilarious - experience as a young Marine artilleryman in Vietnam. Gritty, unvarnished and often disturbing at times, the book provides a unique window into the lasting physical and emotional wounds of war.

A poignant memoir that recounts the author's hair-raising--and occasionally hilarious--experiences as a young, not especially gung-ho Marine artilleryman in Vietnam. Gritty and disturbing, Bill Jones' unvarnished narrative probes the lasting physical and emotional wounds of war and offers a combat veteran's wry insight into the influence and relevance of America's long and indecisive misadventure.

Bill Jones is a retired Special Agent with the CSX Railroad Police and former newspaper columnist with the Wyoming State Journal. A regular contributor to Range magazine, his poetry and articles have been published in a variety of anthologies, books and periodicals. He lives in Middlesboro, Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Vess Quinlan

Poem: The Body Burning Detail

Preface

1. Pack Your Trash

2. We Don’t Want Any Candy Asses

3. I Can’t Hear You!

Poem: Lights Out

4. Breathe. Relax. Aim. Sight. Squeeze.

5. Fortunate Son

6. You Guys Have No Idea

7. Shredded Wheat

8. A Live Dog … A Dead Lion

9. A World of Shit

10. Chicken Plates

11. Magnificent Bastards

12. A Mexican Angel

Poem: Fixation

13. You Will Probably Get Killed Anyway

14. Good Morning, Vietnam!

15. I Will Be in the Area All Day

16. A Sexist Pig

17. Short-Arm Inspection

18. A Magic Show

19. Ann-Margret’s Panties

20. Two-Legged Rats

21. Smoking Is Hazardous to Your Health

Poem: Chief

22. Bob’s Wife

23. More Like an Earthworm

24. Friendly Fire

25. Regrets

26. Bad News

27. In Country R&R

28. LZ Sitting Duck

29. Playboy Foldout

30. A Gook Killing Machine

31. Grand Theft Auto

32. Fix Bayonets

Poem: Near Laos

33. Show Him the Scalp

34. Chief

35. REMF’s

36. Miss Congeniality

37. Dogpatch

Poem: Heathen Killer

38. A Frogman in Miami

39. A Lot of Fat Sailors

40. Things Are Different Out There

41. Search and Avoid

42. Go Along to Get Along

43. Fire Ants on a Dead Bird

44. Full Circle

45. Tiger Piss

Poem: Five Days Home

46. A Little Too Cute

47. Blood Money

48. Police Only

Epilogue

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2018
Zusatzinfo	11 photos, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	254 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4766-7517-1 / 1476675171
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7517-6 / 9781476675176
Zustand	Neuware