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    Chasing Understanding in the Jungles of Vietnam: My Year as a Black Scarf
    Chasing Understanding in the Jungles of Vietnam: My Year as a Black Scarf
    Chasing Understanding in the Jungles of Vietnam: My Year as a Black Scarf
    Audiobook6 hours

    Chasing Understanding in the Jungles of Vietnam: My Year as a Black Scarf

    Written by Douglas Beed

    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner

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    About this audiobook

    Author Doug Beed relates his memories of the men and missions during his year (1968-69) as a combat soldier with the First Infantry Division in Vietnam. After two years of college he couldn't afford to continue, so he was forced to relinquish his student deferment and enter the draft. He tried various strategies to get a non-combat job; nevertheless, he ended up in the infantry and was assigned to Vietnam.

    The stories in this book depict the year Doug spent in Alpha Company, where he spent days on patrols finding and killing North Vietnamese soldiers along the hundreds of miles of trails heading for the Saigon. These stories range from funny to tragic, from uplifting to extremely frustrating, and from touching to horrifying. This book gives the listener a sense of life in the infantry in 1968 and 1969.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 31, 2017
    ISBN9781541480117
    Chasing Understanding in the Jungles of Vietnam: My Year as a Black Scarf

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    • 5/5
      Beed has written a memoir of experiences that ten of thousands of young men in the late 60's lived through. Being drafted to fight in Vietnam, going there and doing his job, and returning to the U.S. a changed and damaged man. Experiencing hell, dealing with it, and pushing on. He tells his story through the eyes of an infantryman. And he tells it excellently, honestly, and openly. The training, the waiting, the boredom, the excitement, and the outright terror of the deployment. The incompetence of the "lifers". The return home, the anger, the drinking, the confusion, and ultimately, the conquering of the experiences. While Beed experiences an amazing amount of combat, he never once "blows his own horn", instead he relates the experiences in a plain-spoken, yet vivid manner. The result is that the reader feels they are there with Beed. The same when he returns home, never boasting of his experiences, instead keeping them to himself. Yet the way he opens up in the end of the book, you have to marvel at the man, his strength, and of the other men with similar experiences. Excellent book!
    • 4/5
      An excellent book that I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend. Written with a youthful honesty of an American teenager, caught up in his generation’s own version of hell
    • 5/5
      This is the book to read, if you feel moral resentment towards war and it's brutal, murderous nature. This is a heartbreaking story seen through the eyes of a young man, but reflected upon with an old man's wisdom. Reflection over moral dilemmas of being made into a tool in the hands of people with questionable, or sometimes evil intensions during war time and the following consequences. Out of all the books I've read about the Vietnam War, this is probably the most realistic, humble, honest and touching of them all. A must read for everyone interested in the topic.
    • 5/5
      Honest and intelligent with a fine narration.
      All should enjoy this