Busted: A Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America

by W.D. Ehrhart

This book picks up where Passing A Vietnam Veteran Against the War left off, and completes the trilogy begun with A Combat Marine Memoir. It begins with the Coast Guard raid on Ehrhart's oil tanker and ends with the conclusion of his trial for possession of "controlled substances," a span of time that corresponds almost exactly with the opening of the House Judiciary Committee's hearings on the impeachment of Richard Nixon and Nixon's resignation and pardon by Gerald Ford.

Along the way, Ehrhart encounters a wise and sympathetic lawyer, an MG Midget, a local New Jersey cop who thinks he's Wyatt Earp, New York City detectives who arrest him for armed robbery of a liquor store, a forklift that can turn on a dime, a Coast Guard prosecutor who wants to teach Ehrhart a lesson, the Carranza Memorial, and three ghosts who are as real as you and me.

174 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 1995

Reviews

[Renee]

I highly recommend reading the two memoirs printed prior to this one as this makes up the third in the series.
Brilliant writer, poet and very intelligent man.

[Sam Jonson]

Interesting story about Vietnam vet adventures in the post war world.