The Price They Paid: Enduring Wounds Of War - Softcover

Putzel, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986132101 ISBN 13: 9780986132100

Publisher: Michael Putzel, 2015

Synopsis

THE PRICE THEY PAID is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the flight crews that followed him into the most intensive helicopter warfare ever—and how that brutal experience has changed their lives in the forty years since the war ended. · Nine million Americans served in the military during the Vietnam era. · 2.6 million of them served in Vietnam · Fewer than a million of those saw combat. · In 2015, 58,300 names were listed on The Wall as killed or still missing. · More than 300,000 were wounded. Reliable statistics aren’t available to tell us how many died later due to exposure to Agent Orange, suicide, traumatic brain injury or other causes probably related but not directly traceable to their combat service. No one knows how many are scarred by PTSD or other mental illness. THE PRICE THEY PAID shares the true story of aviators in one helicopter unit and how their harrowing experiences forever changed their lives.

About this title

About the Author:

MICHAEL PUTZEL is a distinguished American journalist who covered the war in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos for two-and-a-half years as a war correspondent for the Associated Press. From the Civil Rights Movement and the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon, to the White House under Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton and the collapse of Soviet Communism from Moscow, he reported many of the biggest news stories of his generation. He witnessed the shooting of President Reagan, served as Washington bureau chief of the Boston Globe, and wrote a widely published weekly column on how technology has changed people’s lives. Mr. Putzel and his wife, biographer Ann Blackman, have two grown children and live in Washington, DC.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Putzel
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0986132101
• ISBN 13: 9780986132100
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364