No Time To Cry - Julian, Joseph

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Résumé :
The majority of the soldiers serving in Vietnam were draftees. Back then, a classification of 1A meant the chance of getting drafted was about 99%, and the chance you would end up in Vietnam was around 90%. Of the over 58,000 names etched on the Vietnam War Memorial, the majority were boys just out of high school, brothers who never had a chance to live out their lives, their dreams. Not to mention a forgotten list of wounded and dismembered to the tune of 304,000. Of the 2.7 million who served in Vietnam, one out of every 10 soldiers ended up a casualty. Amputations or crippling wounds were 300 times higher than World War II. Over 75,000 Vietnam veterans are severely disabled. And not a single thank you, or welcome home, we missed you. On Memorial Day, even today, president after president honors the WWII, Korean, Iraq, and Afghanistan veterans, but the Vietnam veteran does not even get an honorable mention. There is another list of names that no one sees. These names are not written down or etched into a wall, nor do they have a monument anywhere. They are the names of the survivors who left Vietnam physically but not mentally, never fully returning home. Completely changed, a whole different person, a stranger alone in a crowded world they could not wait to get back to. This is a true story told thru the eyes of one of those survivors. Hopefully writing this book will help put the ghosts in his head to rest, and bring to light how badly Vietnam veterans were treated when they returned home....

Biographie:
This is not the first book Joseph Julian has written and published. After his tour of duty in the army, in his job with Ford Motor Company he spent a good deal of his time writing. In fact, his job title was Release and Spec Writer. One of his accomplishments was writing a technical manual. It was short, but had big results. Written in 1993, the title was Under-hood Appearance, and the results are there every time you open the hood of any car today and know exactly where to look to check your oil. Joseph hopes this book does as well. His story is not about any one act, profession, or lifestyle. It is about the journeys that he has been on and the people he met along the way. Even though he started each journey on his own, he always ended in the company of friends. Joseph hopes that if he leaves readers with anything, it will be the understanding that the journey is more important than the goal.