Our Brother's Keeper: My Family's Journey through Vietnam to Hell and Back

One American family's struggle to recover from the haunting legacy of the Vietnam War Jedwin Smith's beloved younger brother Jeff joined the Marines and was sent to Vietnam in 1967. Jeff's death by a Vietnamese rocket attack in March 1968 was the catalyst that finally ended his parents' marriage and created a lost generation of Smith siblings. Some of Jedwin's brothers and sisters spiraled out of control into alcoholism, substance abuse, and obsession with their dead brother's memory, while Jedwin himself became obsessed with finding and killing his brother's killer. This moving and very personal memoir relates the nightmare Smith's family endured and the trials each of them faced before they could ultimately find a measure of peace in their lives, including the story of Jedwin's own recovery from rage and delusion. Jedwin Smith (Lawrenceville, GA) is a journalist with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.