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For Self and Country - For the Wounded in Vietnam the Journey Home Took More Courage Than Going into Battle (Paperback)
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For Self and Country - For the Wounded in Vietnam the Journey Home Took More Courage Than Going into Battle (Paperback)
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Vietnam was often called a "teenager's war." The average age was
19.2 so, in the main, the War was fought by 17, 18, 19 and 20 year
olds barely out of high school and often without the income,
intelligence, inclination, or focus to attend college. For
everyone, the draft loomed large in their futures, you could choose
your branch of service or let the draft decide for you. Fresh from
sock hops and college freshman mixers, young men found themselves
in a fight for their lives, from the Delta to the DMZ, on animal
trails, numbered hills and in remote jungle outposts. Teenagers
witnessed the unspeakable carnage of war while trying to understand
the collision of emotions and insult to the senses that is combat.
Thousands died there and many thousands more were wounded and
maimed. So the hell of combat was replaced by the painful recovery
in a military hospital. For Eilert and thousands of others it was
Great Lakes Naval Hospital at Great Lakes, Illinois. For Self and
Country follows Eilert's many months of recovery along with the
stories of the brave young men who surrounded him and sustained
with friendship and humour. This is a story of family, young love,
and the magnificent care administered by the Navy doctors, nurses
and revered Corpsmen. Great Lakes was a place of great pain but
also recovery, not just from the physical damage sustained but also
the unseen emotional injuries soldiers endured but rarely talked
about. Eilert recounts how most soldiers had no expectation of
surviving Vietnam but found adapting back to civilian life an even
harder challenge. About the Author Rick Eilert, born on 4 June
1947, enlisted in USMC in March 1967. In November 1967, Eilert
sustained serious injuries and transported to Great Lakes Naval
Hospital for recovery.
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