I Remember Quan Loi

sheds more light on what daily life was like for a soldier in that war than Apocalypse Now, Platoon, or any of the countless films made about it... few if any writers have thought more deeply about what combat does to a young man, making universal his experience in that conflict. He uses novelistic devices skillfully to make his book a compelling read. Sarah Greene, Gilmer Mirror David Bedard enlisted in the United States Army shortly after graduating from college and landed five months later in February 1969 in Quan Loi, Vietnam. In the remote wilderness of Ouachita National Forest, he dug up the memories, some too terrible to bear. Stories of the way of life and living conditions of American soldiers in Vietnam, of the French and Vietnamese who lived in the vicinity of Quan Loi, of the horrors of war, and of the return home to Texas where David struggled with the realization that the war had changed him, and that he would never be the same person he was before going to Vietnam. The book delves into the very heart of a young man s emotions and trials, of Vietnam duty and readjustment to the American way of life. Exploring the frustrations of patriotism for one man who chose to serve his country during the Vietnam War, it reveals the soul of one American soldier.