No Longer Enemies, Not Yet Friends: An American Soldier Returns to Vietnam
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393331113 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 354 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Along with its acute observations of postwar Vietnamese culture, this report is distinguished by Downs's admission that he returned to 'Nam for the first time in 20 years with his low opinion of "gooks" intact, and expecting to find widespread hatred of Americans. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. The story of his coming to terms with his former enemy is both moving and instructive, and includes a detailed account of the week in 1988 he spent escorting the Vietnamese director of rehabilitation around Washington, D.C. . Downs, a former infantry officer who lost an arm in the war, the author of The Killing Zone and director of prosthetics and sensory aid services for the Veterans Administration, took
"Soldier returns to Vietnam 20 years later" according to Frank. This book is essentially a memoir by Frederick Downs, former infantry lieutenant whose arm was blown off by a mine in the Vietnam war. Twenty years later he finds himself, now the director of the VA's Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service, as a US team member re-establishing contact with Vietnam to determine their . soldier turns healer rahul mehta No Longer Enemies,Not Yet Fiends is the story of Down's dual journeys: as an official for reapproachment between two adversaries;and his own internal journey from hatred and suspicion to a large understanding of commonality of human suffering.In his book the author has more than anyone else,tried to convince hims
This is his personal odyssey from hatred to a deeper understanding of all human suffering.. Twenty years after he served in Vietnam--and lost his left arm in combat there--Downs returned to Vietnam with the Vessey mission to offer humanitarian aid to his former enemies