Names I Can't Remember - Hardcover

Douglas R. Bergman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0975917714 ISBN 13: 9780975917718

Publisher: The Warrior Group, 2005

Synopsis

In 1969, I was homeless and living in an abandoned parsonage. I enlisted for food and a bed as a typist. Glory lured me into hell. I became combat platoon leader assassin responsible for the lives of 50 men of nineteen. This is prose poetry that lingers in the soul. Characters are the simple spiritual survivors that haunted me for thirty years: quiet hero rebels of the days we got lost in arrogance.

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From the Inside Flap:

$24.95 ($31.95 in Canada) You've seen them, the Vietnam Vets who gather at the Vietnam Wall. They pause at the top of the incline for a moment, as if gathering the courage to walk down to the wall... to travel back to that time and place that is forever locked in a chamber of the soul. They stand in front of the wall, looking at the names. The veteran who reaches up to put his hand on the name of a man who died in his arms in a stinking rice paddy, half a world away and half a life ago, may look to some like a graying, bulging, innocuous, next-door neighbor. But the reflection the veteran is seeing, is that of a helmeted, flak vest wearing, M-16 rifle carrying, young man whose thousand-yard-stare eyes have seen far too much death.Doug Bergman is one of those men, and his book is a gripping, gut-wrenching story that forces the reader to confront the scars that war left. If you are a veteran, be pre-pared to be jerked back to a time and place that, if you are honest with yourself, is the watershed of your life. If you are not a veteran, if perchance you can't even remember America's most divisive era since the Civil War, then reading this will give you a post-graduate understanding of the turmoil that gnaws, to this day, at the soul of all of us who served. 'God would let me forget the names but force me to grow old with memories,' Doug Bergman writes. And in this magnificent book, he forces you to share those memo-ries with him. Robert Vaughan, Author of Brandywine's War . . . a harrowing and over-whelming journey! . . . to have lived it. . . write it in such a compelling . . . poetic manner. Kent Broadhurst . . . a surreal quality . . . will reach important and signifi cant audience . . . Colin Harrison . . . a wild, Kerouac way with words . . . storm of emotion and experiences . . . Charlotte Gusay ... energy and excitement ... reminded me of the beats. Matthew McGowan . . . a strong story, Tracy Carns . . . great emotional detail and outpouring . . . does create a poetic and even spoken word feel. William J. Thomas Very descriptive and visual. Jo Ann Wild . . . unruly . . . the poetry of your prose is so evocative of existential angst, desperation, trauma... Donald S. Ellis . . . an unusual story . . . quirky and interesting. Abby Vietor . . . the images it forms will stay with me for a long time. Noel L. ParsonsCover design: Tony MeiselWarrior Group47-28 Francis Lewis Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361718-224-8246 warriorbooks@aol.com

About the Author:

AUTHOR – Doug's plays have been produced in New York and Washington D.C. His features/investigative pieces have appeared nationally and internationally in Working Mother Value, and Bravo. He is the author of No One Applauds in the suburbs and Radical Ice-Cream Blue Rag CafÉ and (sssh) Demolition Society. He was awarded the Charles Shelton Welcome Home Award for veterans of note and remains a POW/MIA speaker/activist. His lyrical prose poetry book is the true stories of the memorable people he met as a decorated 1st Lt. Combat Infantry Platoon Leader with the 101 Abn. in Vietnam 69-70.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Warrior Group
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0975917714
• ISBN 13: 9780975917718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320