Home Front : Vietnam and Families at War

by Gray, Willard D.

• ISBN13: 9781600020193
• ISBN10: 1600020194
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Airleaf

Summary

When will the war finally come to an end? Home Front: Viet Nam and Families at War recounts the private ordeals of several families who bore the brunt of America's war in Viet Nam. Their experiences, an ongoing tragedy since the last U.S. soldiers? left Vietnamese soil, reveal the physical and psychological wounds of war ? wounds that don?t discriminate between soldier and family. From the backwoods of Maine to the rugged wide open landscape of Montana, we meet a dozen soldiers and their families and hear their stories. Author Willard D. Gray knows the fallout firsthand. His oldest son spent two years and eighteen consecutive days in Viet Nam as a BAMC trained medic, most of his tour in the bush or in the grist mill of an evac. hospital. When Willard's son returned home in April 1970 without an honorable discharge, the Gray family endured several months of tension, anger, and disappointment. Tommy Gray had come home a completely changed young man.

Author Biography

Willard was born and raised in rural Illinois. He successfully completed a career in the Army and later owned his own automotive business. His previous work a docu-novel entitled End of a Silence: Full Moon over Fox Prairie, offers a vivid retelling of a tumultuous event that occurred near his childhood home in the 1800's.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Dedication	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
A Different Era - Contrasts With the Military of Today	p. 1
MIA	p. 7
The Seibert Family	p. 7
Casualties of War	p. 32
Three Families	p. 32
Homecoming	p. 60
The Webb Family	p. 60
Health of a Nation	p. 91
Agent Orange	p. 94
The Twinam Family	p. 94
PTSD	p. 122
The Kenny Hayes Family	p. 122
Home Life	p. 137
The Frank Hayes Family	p. 137
Suicide	p. 168
The Rigdon Family	p. 168
From The Ashes	p. 209
Outcasts	p. 215
The Cantrell Family	p. 215
Homeless	p. 236
The Lintecum Family	p. 236
Career Moves	p. 266
The Rudow Family	p. 266
Honor Restored	p. 294
The Gray Family	p. 294
Afterword	p. 332
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