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The Betrayed - On Warriors, Cowboys and Other Misfits (Paperback)
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The Betrayed - On Warriors, Cowboys and Other Misfits (Paperback)
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Sometimes people do the wrong things for the right reasons. The
author admits that to be the "story of his life" and openly shares
much of it in this book. Although the book is largely an
historically based auto-biography, it is part fact and part
fiction. In cases where identities needed to be protected, the
"facts" necessary to that end are changed but without altering the
accuracy of the description of the event or its historical
significance. It is a personal story. It is a cowboy-warrior's
story told in a cowboy-warrior's language. It is the story of one
man's journey from bondage to freedom and from slavery to liberty.
It is the gritty story of this man's life-long education in the
school of hard knocks as his journey took him from a sharecropper's
shack, through the rodeo arena and the boxing ring, across the
football field and the drilling rig floor, into the Marines and two
wars and ultimately culminating in the university laboratory and
classroom (the most dangerous of all the aforementioned places).
Although woven around the experiences and adventures of one man, it
is also the story of the people who lived during the period of time
in American history that an entire generation was betrayed It is
the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal
odyssey took place. It is the story of the betrayal of an entire
generation of Americans and particularly the 40% (of the military
aged males) of that generation that fought the Vietnam war. The
story is told mostly in the form vignettes-short scenes of a
particular moment or event. Some are significant. Many are trivial.
Some are humorous. Others are heart breaking--even nightmarish. But
when sequenced, they tell a story that has a theme. They chronicle
an odyssey-an intellectual journey that begins with the author's
self-contradictory and delusional rationalizations for some of the
horrible things that he did in the name of "mother, God and
country" and ends with the realization that they were, indeed,
horrible. The conclusions are not mere "visions in the night." They
are a result of a very difficult process of shaking a lifetime of
authoritarian indoctrination. Some segments of the book will likely
be interpreted as "whining" or "self-pity" and they probably are.
But it is also a story of love, hate, happiness, sadness, anger,
complacency, adventure, excitement, boredom, bravery, fear, duty,
tyranny, incompetence, empire building, honor, cowardice, heroism
and yes, betrayal. The book is the product of a lifetime of
experience and reflection with a little research and a healthy
portion of labored discipline added. It was written with the white
heat of passion that occurs during the moment when the world comes
into focus for the first time. It will bring your world into better
focus.
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