Author Of It Wasn’t Like
Nothing: One Marine’s Adventure in Vietnam
1. What can we learn by reading your book? Learning from the book: I would like to think we
came away from the book with a positive attitude. The book simply gives
the reader a description of what really happened at the level of the Marines
taking on the NVA and Vietcong. It further describes the problems the Marines
experience trying to simply exist under the conditions of the War.
2. Does America just want to forget the
Vietnam War? I can't speak for the vast majority of
Americans but I suspect most of them put the War behind them. The fact
that more than 55,000 Americans were killed seems of little concern to the
present population.
3. What are your strongest memories of the
unwinable war? First of all I disagree that it was
an unwinnable War. Realistic our War was fought to stop the spread of
Communism south of Vietnam. The Marines had to fight the Japanese in the
Second World War up the Islands toward Japan. They never set foot on
Japan until Japan surrendered. Obviously we did no want to spread
Communism South of Vietnam. We were successful in this regard. My strongest
memories were twofold. One was engaging the enemy on a regular basis. Secondly
my memory involved the lack of things like food, water and clothing and in
addition the lives of the dead and wounded.
4. Should our government do more for its
returning veterans? I don't know. My
recollection was that the Americans who made it back from Vietnam did not have
complaints about how they were treated.
5. How does Vietnam compare to our endless
terrorism wars in the Middle East? Regarding the
War in Vietnam, we got more than 50,000 Americans killed. We went out to
fight a real War. What is going on in the middle East is nothing compared
to what happened in Vietnam and the various Wars we engaged in prior to
Vietnam.
6. What did you find challenging about penning
this book? I wrote the book 35 years ago and
stacked it away upon completion. I had no problems writing the
book. It was about what actually happened and I simply reduced it to
writing. Everything in there was true so I had little or no challenge in writing
the book.
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