DAYS

by Don Place, Michael Denneny (Editor)

My name is Don Place. I served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division; I served in combat, with a combat battalion. I was a teenager at the time, and this is about a group of incidents that happened in 1967 and 1968. The title “Days” comes from the number of days left in country, which we all kept track of and knew like our names.

110 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 12, 2012

Reviews

[Anneliese Dahl · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Days” by Don Place is a mesmerizing recounting of the Vietnam War, told in a way that I have not yet seen. At the heart of it, it is the story of a good young man, trying to do a good thing for his country yet facing the madness of a war that seems to have no beginning or end, no direction, no sanity. It is told breathlessly, cathartically, as though the author must free himself of this madness and find out from us, “Am I OK? Do you understand what happened to me?” It seems almost dream-like, a perpetual nightmare, with just enough beauty, love and kindness to make the atrocities of war all the more devastating. It shows how a good man can be pushed to the brink, reacting, improvising, surviving, helping his fellow soldiers, yet be forced to leave parts of himself behind. It is a madness beyond compare, unimaginable that one could survive such experiences intact . . . but it is also a testament to a man’s faith, his tenacity, his struggle to make sense of the madness of a war that, as the author says, everybody lost. And the country turned their backs on the sacrifices of these men and women who served. I walk away from this book changed in some way and wishing that this be the book that people say is the final word on the good men and women who served, who died, who survived the Vietnam War.

[Frank Dunlevy · Rating 1 out of 5]

This Book , like his interview/discussion on You Tube is so full of fantastic stories and BS it’s hard to know where to begin. His facts/dates/nomenclature/Locations/descriptions are all wrong. Myself and many other Real Combat Vets have called him out on this stuff on the You Tube Video Comments.
Sadly another case of Editors not doing the most basic Fact Checking.
If you want to read a great Novel about the Viet Nam War read 1) “Matterhorn” 2) “The 13th Valley” both written by real/decorated Combat Vets , not this collection of fables.