I am Rhone, a 68 year old Caucasian American, a Cajun, code named
Pop, and I have been writing my memoirs, about assimilation, faith,
symbolism, and patriotism, in my head for most of my life. I,
Rhone, dared not write most of my life experiences down on paper
for fear of ridicule, until my experiences could be related with
some semblance of credibility. I, Rhone Sonnier Louviere, a US Army
Vietnam Era Veteran, 1962-65, have visions, dreams, and or
nightmares of incidents from long ago. Names have been withheld
from military accounts in order to observe military decorum (code
names have been used). There is no malintent in this, my memoir,
towards the Vietnamese people, US Military or other entities. One
particular incident was a special black covert operation that
occurred in Vietnam in July 1962, and it is this recurring
nightmare and subsequent spiritual experience which propels me even
deeper into my past to a point where I am obsessed with finding the
facts about my military brothers, Snicker and Nickel. The truth
surrounding my own family, and that of my Soulmate and childhood
sweetheart, Barbara Miller Sonnier's family (wife of fifty years)
are written to describe cultural assimilation in Biloxi. I have
experienced tragic incidents during my entire life. When a child of
less than five years of age, I was was confronted by a castaway dog
named Gumbo and an alligator, and much later in my life in a
harrowing experience where I, along with two of my men, are saved
by a Phantom Spirit. A mental plague of visions, dreams, and
nightmares compel me to mentally exploit the past through
conversations with my Daddy, wife Barbara, brother Joe, and
research. This is a search to separate embellished fact from
outright fiction. Memories of my mentors words and actions are
always paramount in my mind, as I trudge on with life's new and
challenging experiences. I realize that with each new incident I
have the experience and acumen to handle it and move forward. I,
Rhone, from a young age had fantasies of completing higher
education. I have a Bachelor of Science Degree from The University
of Southern Mississippi; a Master of Science from Abilene Christian
University; and I have aspirations toward a Doctorate in Public
Policy/Sociology from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (I
dream it and then I do it). I roamed restlessly as I changed career
paths, traveling state to state, and to countries throughout the
world. I want to write it all down in a quest to try and make some
sense of my worth in life, to my wife and my children, and to
myself. In my timorous visions and dreams, Biloxi, Mississippi is
the back drop early on, and throughout my life, while an ominous
warehouse occupied by French speaking fisher people, and farmers,
in Vietnam, is at the epicenter of my most dreaded nightmare.
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