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Like Boy Scouts with Guns - Memoir of a Counterculture Warrior in Vietnam (Paperback)
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Like Boy Scouts with Guns - Memoir of a Counterculture Warrior in Vietnam (Paperback)
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Facing the possibility of being drafted and sent to Vietnam, Roger
Durham secured a deferment when he enrolled in college. Devoting
more time to anti-war protests than to studies, he became immersed
in the late 1960s counterculture, flunked out and was drafted
anyway. Deployed to Vietnam with the U.S. Army's 18th Engineer
Brigade Headquarters, he was assigned to a helicopter base "behind
the wire," far from the action. Or so he thought-the action came to
him as the base drew mortar, rocket and sapper attacks. Durham's
clear-eyed memoir relates an often untold experience of the Vietnam
War-that of the counterculture soldier whose opposition to war did
not end when he was inducted. Adjusting to life in-country, he
finds a thriving drug culture and a brotherhood of like-minded
warriors, who resist both the enemy and the culture of zealous
militarism that prosecutes what they see as an immoral war, against
American national interests. Durham undergoes changes in
perspective, extending his tour of duty when the thought of going
home fills him with anxiety and anticipation.
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