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The author, a retired Navy Commander, presents a unique view of the Vietnam War while providing an understanding of the horror, brutality, chaos, and insanity of war. His interviews with 61 members of the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1965 who served during the war in Vietnam include candid, first-hand accounts of American action on the ground, in the air, on the rivers, and offshore. Their stories involve Marines fighting bloody battles for hills soon abandoned after being captured; Naval aviators watching their wingman being shot down on missions targeting meaningless targets while Hanoi ...

Having lost her husband in a car accident, Lexi Lambeau moves to the NC beach. As a 53-year old widow and mother of two sons in the Navy, she becomes bored and goes online to meet someone “different”. After evaluating potential candidates with her eclectic group of friends - a female Lutheran pastor, a 30-something NYC stay-at-home attorney/mother who is addicted to porn, and a local bookstore owner - she picks out a much younger “Physics guy” who teaches in Arizona. Much to her friends’ consternation, she decides to take a road trip with him through the west. Things happen - ...