Journey Back from Vietnam - One Soldier's Long Road Home from War

When Wayne Purinton was 19, feeling it was his patriotic duty, he decided to volunteer for service to his country. Soon after, Wayne was flung into the jungles of Vietnam and told to track down and kill the enemies of his country. The horrors he experienced pervaded, and he didn't speak of Vietnam again even to those closest to him.

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.