Walking Point (eBook)

A Vietnam Memoir

Robert E Kunkel (Autor)

Jean Doran Matua (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
480 Seiten
Thunderbrook Publishing (Verlag)
9781513639239 (ISBN)

Infos

Bob Kunkel grew up in a large, Catholic family on a dairy farm in central Minnesota. Although he was older than some draftees, at 22, he was still young and relatively innocent. But not for long.Kunkel recounts his experiences with so much detail that the reader can feel and smell the steamy jungle. He brings you right along with him. His story is much more than a collection of details, however. His military experience was largely mundane routine, spiced with dramatic and dangerous moments and anecdotal incidents, recounted with a dry sense of humor. Prepare for an emotional rollercoaster of a read.Kunkel spent parts of 18 years working on this memoir. It began as general notes he wrote down in order to free the haunting details from his mind, as therapy for PTSD, It evolved into a full-fledged memoir. ';Once I opened up, I could deal with it,' he says. Initially, his plan was to share this painstakingly written account with family, as a sort of legacy. His story deserves to be shared much more broadly, though. It is a story of drive and tenacity, of survival, and of the power of faith and family.We know Kunkel survived Vietnam to write this tale. Delving into these pages, however, the reader will be taken on one adventure after another, with plenty of twists along the way. It's certainly not at all like in the movies.Draw your own conclusions on the merit, or lack thereof, of the Vietnam War. But you'll appreciate the time spent with Kunkel during his year of Vietnam duty. You will not see that war the same way after reading Walking Point.Jean Doran Matua, Editor

Inhalt

Table of Photos and Illustrations
Author’s Notes
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preamble
Vietnam
Induction
Basic Training (Boot Camp): 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery
Advanced Infantry Training (AIT),4th Troop, 12th Squadron
Advance Unit Training (AUT)
5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry, Garry Owen
Battalion Goes To Vietnam, USS Hugh J. Gaffey
Beach Landing in Vietnam
Camp Radcliff (An Khê), Building 5th Bn 7th Cav Compound
First Field Assignment: Security for Highway 19
Operation Irving
The Caves
Operation Thayer
Sore Feet Retreat
Retreat is Over
Arriving Too Early
A Date with the Enemy
Trouble with a FNG (F---ing New Guy)
A Close Call
Communicating with the Enemy
The Monsoon Rain: Heading to the Hills
B Company’s First KIA (Killed in Action)
Firefight, November 1, 1966
Hospital (Qui Nho’n)
Flight to Japan
7th Field Hospital
Convalescing
Back to ’Nam
Back with the Platoon
A Gung-ho acting Jack
Move to LZ English
An Lão Valley
The Tet New Year
LZ Security
B Company to Get a New Leader
Easter 1967
Monkeys, Dogs, and Fire
Incoming
One Hell of a Firefight
Capture–Escape–Hero
Missing Funds
From Priesthood to General’s Aide
LZ Security in the Mountains
Cam Ranh Bay
The Night Crew
Befriending the Laundress
Enjoying the Bay
DEROS
Back to the World
Going Home
Back to Fort Carson
A Civilian
Marriage and a Career Made for Me
Glossary
Index
About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Army • infantry • viet nam • Vietnam • walking point
• ISBN-13: 9781513639239 / 9781513639239