13 Months

In the Bush, in Vietnam, in 1968

De: Bruce A. Bastien

Narrado por: Jason Vande Brake

This is an intimate look at life in the bush during the Vietnam War in 1968. You will experience the daily struggles, battles, and funny things that happen to a USMC grunt living in the bush for 13 months.

You’ll see firsthand through the battles, what marines ate and drank, where they slept, and their existence that ranged from unmitigated terror to utter boredom, hot and dry to wet and cold, rested and ready to frazzled and wired.

You’ll watch as a kid grows philosophically and confident, able to handle stress and strain, learning about friendship, love, difficulty, danger, deprivation, and loss.

His friends are American kids from all different walks of life, backgrounds, races, and learning. The common element among them is their humanity, bravery, and willingness to risk their lives to help one another.

They all were simply just a bunch of American boys doing their job, taking their chances, hoping to go home to the real world from an unreal world.

©2020 Bruce A. Bastien (P)2020 Bruce A. Bastien

Noteworthy but not Extraordinary

Of the many novels, memoirs, and biographies that I have had the pleasure of reading this particular one is definitely worth the read, but was not as spell binding for me.

Narrator

The narrator pronounced many things wrong such as “coressssman” and it was really annoying and ridiculous that this guy didn’t know common pronunciations

Enjoyable memoir

Author really tells an enjoyable and fast paced recount of his experience and action in Vietnam