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Tom Glenn

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Graham Greene, John Steinbeck

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Tom Glenn has worked as an intelligence operative, a musician, a linguist (seven languages), a cryptologist, a government executive, a care-giver for the dying, a leadership coach, and, always, a writer. Many of his prize-winning short stories (sixteen in print) came from the better part of thirteen years he shuttled between the U.S. and Vietnam on combat support intelligence assignments before being evacuated under fire when Saigon fell.

With a BA in Music, a master's in Government, and a doctorate in Public Administration and trained as a musician, actor, and public speaker, he toured the country lecturing on leadership and management, trained federal executives, and was the Dean of the Management Department at the National Cryptologic Sc ...more

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Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?

Tom Glenn As Saigon was about to fall, a Vietnamese army officer I knew planned to escape with his wife and his three children as soon as the U.S. ambassador is…moreAs Saigon was about to fall, a Vietnamese army officer I knew planned to escape with his wife and his three children as soon as the U.S. ambassador issued an evacuation order. But when the ambassador chose not to call for an evacuation, the officer, to escape capture, torture and execution by the victorious North Vietnamese, shot to death his three children, his wife, and himself.(less)

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Tom Glenn Where would I travel? To Vietnam during wartime, before April 1975. That's the land of J.M Graham's Arizona Moon, Phil Caputo's Indian Country, and Ka…moreWhere would I travel? To Vietnam during wartime, before April 1975. That's the land of J.M Graham's Arizona Moon, Phil Caputo's Indian Country, and Karl Marlantes' Matterhorn. It's also the home of much of my own writing, retelling the events that shaped me as a man. I'd want to relive the brotherhood I shared with combatants who died by my side. I'd feel again the bond with men who'd die to save my life, just as I risked mine to save theirs. I crave to feel again the love—we don't call it that, but that's what it is—between men who fight side by side against a common enemy.

Vietnam as it is today has no appeal for me. I've never gone back and don't want to. What I yearn for is not there. It's here in my heart. I've never forgotten.(less)

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	Last of the Annamese 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No-Accounts: Dare Mighty Things 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Friendly Casualties 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Over the next thirteen years, 1962 to 1975, I spent more time in Vietnam than I did in the U.S. My primary job was providing signals intelligence support to troops in combat. Because I spent so much time on the battlefield, I developed a severe case of Post-Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI) from which I still suffer and always will. In 1974, I was assigned to head the clandestine National Security Ag

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“Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals.”
― Tom Glenn

tags: aids, an-nam, combat, combat-ptsd, saigon, vc, viet-cong, vietnam-war

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