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T
HIS BOOK WAS ORIGINALLY
intended as a story about American veterans of the Viet Nam War which would also include segments on Viet Namese and Cambodian soldiers and their families. The Cambodian section took on a life of its own about three years into the writing. I would like to thank all those many people who assisted me in reaching an understanding of the American experience. The original story has not been abandoned—only temporarily put on hold.

In addition I would like to thank Sisomouth Bilavarn, F. C. Brown, Jim Catlin, David Chandler, Ronald E. Cowart, Sam Deibbler, Frank Del Vecchio, Ahmed Delvean, the Venerable Maha Gosshananda, Harry Hayes, Thanvy Kouk, Mike Kukler, Ben Cai Lam, Bill Laurie, Ned Leavitt, Marcus Leddy, Bob Ledlelaytner, Ron Mullins, Ven Nguyen, Doug Peacock, Bob Platte, Elena Rusnak, Ed Ruminski, Al Santoli, Mary Scully, Teddy Shpak, Mel Simensky, Shelby Stanton, and Tom Taylor.

I would also like to thank F. X. and Rebecca Anne Flinn for their inspiration.

And a very special acknowledgment to Jeremiah who was there every day, through every word of every rewrite, until the very last.

John M. Del Vecchio was drafted in 1969 shortly after graduating from Lafayette College with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and a minor emphasis in Civil Engineering. In 1970 he volunteered for Viet Nam where he served as a combat correspondent for the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile); in 1971 he was awarded a Bronze Star for Heroism in Ground Combat.

Del Vecchio is the author of
The 13th Valley, For the Sake of All Living Things, Carry Me Home
, and
Darkness Falls
, along with numerous articles and papers including the widely quoted “The Importance of Story,” the forward for
Wounds of War
, and the afterword for
Code Word: Geronimo
. His books have been translated into four languages and published worldwide. He has lectured extensively on the history of the Viet Nam War in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, and has appeared on FOX News as a military/political commentator.

Del Vecchio is currently working on screenplays based on his novels, a book about resilience in the fourth quarter of life tentatively titled Exit Strategies, and an expose on the financial crisis from a street-level perspective tentatively titled
From the Bottom Looking Up
.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint from previously published material:

While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy
by Arthur D. Morse. Copyright © 1967, 1968 by Arthur D. Morse. First published in 1983 by The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
www.overlookpress.com

The Prestige Press and the Christmas Bombing
by Martin Herz, copyright 1980 by Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution
by Gareth Porter and George C. Hildebrand, copyright © 1976 by George Hildebrand and Gareth Porter, reprinted by permission of Monthly Review Foundation, New York, NY.

Copyright © 1990 by John M. Del Vecchio

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