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    The Prayer of Jonah: From the Depths of Vietnam Jungles
    The Prayer of Jonah: From the Depths of Vietnam Jungles
    The Prayer of Jonah: From the Depths of Vietnam Jungles
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    The Prayer of Jonah: From the Depths of Vietnam Jungles

    By Sam Rose

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    This is the story of the experiences of Jonathan in the Vietnam War. It is a story of death, violence, pain, and sorrow; of nightmares and disillusions, but it is also a story of Gods healing and his message of hope and prosperity.

    The Prayer of JonahFrom the Depths of Vietnam Jungles is the story of Jonathan, the Jonah of the modern world, disobeying Gods call and finding himself in the belly of the depths of Vietnam jungles.

    After returning from Vietnam, Jonathan, like all the soldiers returning home, was not welcomed by society, especially the hippie movement, calling them assassins, baby killers, and all kind of insults.

    Jonathan received the call of God for the second time and like Jonah, obeyed the Lord and went to the city to deliver Gods message, a 9-1-1 emergency call to the great city. He too went in search of his brother, Carlitos, and gave him a 9-1-1 message of salvation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateDec 6, 2012
    ISBN9781449776343
    The Prayer of Jonah: From the Depths of Vietnam Jungles
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    Sam Rose

    Sam Rose is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews.

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      The Prayer of Jonah - Sam Rose

      Copyright © 2012 Sam Rose

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-7634-3 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-7635-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-7636-7 (hc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012921667

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      WestBow Press rev. date: 11/21/2012

      Contents

      Note from the Author

      Chapter 1 An Encounter with Death

      Chapter 2 The Call

      Chapter 3 The Storm

      Chapter 4 Love and War

      Chapter 5 Different Kind of Personality

      Chapter 6 A Case of Sinful Nature

      Chapter 7 The Replacement

      Chapter 8 Returning Home

      Chapter 9 The Singer

      Chapter 10 The Forbidden Fruit

      Chapter 11 Jonathan Returns to the Great City

      Chapter 12 A 9-1-1 Emergency Call to the Great City

      This is the story of thousands of brave young men, living and dead, who did their duty to the fullest in a war of attrition that they were not allowed to win. They never ran, never abandoned our wounded, and never stopped loving, even when our own people abandoned them upon their return home.

      It is also the story of Jonathan fleeing, like Jonah, from God’s call, his traumatic experiences in the depth of Vietnam’s jungles, his subsequent nightmares, and his long quest for peace. It is, too, a message of hope to those who live in pain and despair.

      *All verses are taken from the NIV Bible

      Note from the Author

      Somebody once said that the human drama can become so painful that the lived experiences can only be transmitted through art. It is through the art of the novel that I try to show a faithful and exact reproduction of the reality lived in the turbulent years of the 60s and 70s.

      I aspire to reflect the individual and social reality within the framework of the historical happenings of those years. Only through the art of the novel can I expose the great social problems and the bitter experiences of death and destruction faced by the soldiers in the Vietnam War. It is only through art, through that literary resource that is the novel, that I can show the exact profiles of subjects, situations, and places that reflect the experience of the men returning from Vietnam.

      The Prayer of Jonah: From the Depths of Vietnam Jungles shows the immediate relation between people and their social surroundings—testimonial exponents of those specific times. I analyze and denounce the evils that stir up the society and the soldiers of the Vietnam War, presenting ideas in a truthful and objective form that, without the aid of art, would be difficult to communicate.

      In addition, the last chapter delivers a 9-1-1 emergency call to a world tormented by violence and anarchy, using the surprising parallels between the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, and the 9–11 verses in the Bible. It is a warning to America and the world to withdraw from the way of destruction and moral and spiritual decay, but it is also God’s message of hope and consolation.

      Chapter 1

      An Encounter with Death

      Everybody, wake up! someone shouted over the loudspeaker.

      Jonathan immediately opened his eyes and tried to make sense of his surroundings. At first he thought he was in the midst of a nightmare. He realized he was still in Vietnam when he heard the words, Good morning, Vietnam!

      Hundreds of soldiers ran into a big formation. Some were newcomers, like Jonathan; others were waiting to be assigned to companies in some of the country’s combat zones.

      Every morning a sergeant climbed a movable platform to read the serial numbers of those who would leave for their assignments. He did not call out Jonathan’s serial number that morning.

      The formation had not yet dissolved when the names of Jonathan and Danny, along with other soldiers, were called at random to join a guard detail on the perimeter of the city.

      A helicopter, its thunderous engine running and its propeller spinning fast, with two M-60 machines guns showing on each side, was waiting for them to board. They took another M-60 and other equipment, put it all in the helicopter, and climbed in. That huge thing vibrated for seconds. Then it soared into the sky and angled away to an unknown destination. Half an hour later, that big bird touched ground.

      Jonathan, as always, began by inspecting his surroundings. He became aware of what to him appeared to be a shack made from bags stuffed full. Soon he learned it was a bunker made of sandbags that served as a refuge in case of a mortar attack. Far ahead, he could see the thick, black, jungle-shrouded mountains.

      Jonathan went to help the other guys mount an M-60 on top of the bunker. They had already finished, so Jonathan sat down alone in the shade. In front of him was an immense, open field that ended at the edge of the thick vegetation blanketing the mountains he’d been watching since he’d arrived. Those were the depths of Vietnam’s jungles. They produced in Jonathan some kind of dread and fear, but the word of the Lord came vividly to his mind:

      You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day. (Psalm 91:5)

      As if presaging an imminent danger, the helicopter soared up to the sky again, going back to the base leaving them there in that solitary place, in the middle of nowhere. Jonathan perceived something ominous in those deserted surroundings, and he felt fear. The almost supernatural quietness left him restless.

      Sitting in the shade, he started to think about his cravings for freedom—urges that he had felt when he was home with his parents. Then, his desire had been to go away to exotic places and live a life without restrictions, without having to go to church every day. Now he was free and in the middle of nowhere. Instead of elated, he felt alone and sad.

      Had that wish for complete freedom, without family and religious restraints, led him here? Or was he a mere victim of circumstances? Was the will to power doing what it

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