Nam Sense. Arthur Wiknik

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Nam Sense Arthur Wiknik ebook
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Page: 288
ISBN: 9781935149095


Nam-Sense is the brilliantly written story of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division. Arthur Wiknik was a 19-year-old kid from New England when he was drafted by the army in 1968. After completing NCO training, he was promoted to sergeant "without ever setting foot in a combat zone," and sent to Vietnam in early 1969. On his first jungle patrol the night after his arrival, his squad killed a female Viet Cong who turned out to have been the local prostitute. It was the first dead person he had ever seen. Wiknik's account of life and death in Vietnam includes everything from heavy combat to faking insanity to get some R&R. He was the first man in his unit to reach the top of Hamburger Hill during one of the last offensives launched by U.S. forces, and later discovered a cache of weapons that prevented an attack on his advance Fire Support Base. Between the sporadic episodes of combat he mingled with the locals, tricked unwitting American suppliers into providing his platoon with a year of good food, defied a superior and was punished with a dangerous mission, and struggled with himself and his fellow soldiers as the anti-war movement began to affect their ability to wage victorious war. Nam-Sense offers a perfect blend of candor, sarcasm, and humor-and it spares nothing and no one in its attempt to accurately convey what really transpired during this unpopular war. Nam-Sense is not about heroism, mental breakdowns, haunting flashbacks, or wallowing in selfpity. The GIs Wiknik lived and fought with during his year-long tour did not rape, murder, or burn villages, were not strung out on drugs, and did not enjoy killing. They were there to do their duty as they weretrained, support their comrades, and get home alive. Wiknik has written a gripping and complete record of life and death in Vietnam, and he has done so with a style and flair few others will ever achieve.

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