After a thirty-year silence, Wayne Purinton rediscovered a lost chapter of his life in the form of letters he had written to his parents and brothers during his time spent overseas. The letters reopened a flood of memories from the past, and he delved into them with a passion and a mind bent on making reparations for his past in order to benefit the future.
The resulting book, Journey Back From Vietnam, is at once a first-hand account of historical wartime events, a detailed case study in one person's struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and a heroic internal struggle to cleanse past demons through humanitarian efforts in Vietnam.