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A Walk in Hell - The Other Side of War
By: Gregory A. Helle
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation; (November 2002)
ISBN: 1401075193
A Veterans Journal
A powerful, emotion packed trip through the mind of a Vietnam Vet disabled with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder.) As with too many other young men, he was sent to an unpopular war and experienced multiple traumas Even though more than thirty years have passed, the realities of the war remain. Even with the best counseling and medications the war is only kept at bay. There is no cure. At best there is only coping. The war will never be far away. It invades his days and nights. His poetic journal is sometimes dark. It is the reality of his war. This is not a book about the war. His poetry reveals how war can effect a soldier long after the battles are done.
This is not a book about the war. There are many books that depict the battles and heroes. This is about what happens when the war is over and society has forgotten. There are still thousands of veterans who are fighting the war every day. Through is poetry, Greg uncovers the effects of trauma on those who have served their country. With many wars on the horizon, it is important for everyone to understand what happens when the war is over and the dead are buried.
For many, the war never ends.
About the Author
Greg is a resident of Ankeny, Iowa. A lifelong Iowa resident, he grew up on a small farm outside Dakota City.
His is married to his high school sweetheart, Alice. They have just celebrated 32 years of marriage. Greg has two grown children. Lorna is a police officer in Des Moines,
Iowa. Sean is in his second year of law school at the University of Iowa. Greg is a CPA and works for Iowa
State University. However, Greg is now out on medical leave and expects to be on full disability soon. He went to Vietnam in 1969 when he was 18 and spent 20 months in Vietnam.
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