My Letters from Nam to Mom (and Others)

This honestly-written book takes the reader on young Art Lapr s eighteen-month journey of extended tours of duty in war-ravaged Vietnam. From Art s arrival in 1965 until completion of his second tour in 1967, you will experience Vietnam at the mundane and not so mundane levels. Candid, revealing, and tempered with the humor of Air Force life, this is not a sensational account of combat. Rather, it is a young man s best recollection of the day-to-day reality of living in a combat zone, as depicted in his narratives and the one hundred or so actual letters to his family and friends. Included are reflections 47 years later, when Art returns to Vietnam on a quest to find out the rest of the story, bringing him a measure of peace and closure to some unanswered, and lingering, questions. Approaching his memoir from a purely humanitarian perspective, Art Lapr s story is an authentic, true account of the impact of his Vietnam experience.