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[Following is a volunteer review of "Deadly Waters: The Vietnam Naval War And Its Aftermath" by Randy Miller.]
Samuel von Pufendorf wrote in 1673 “More inhumanity has been done by man himself than any other of nature’s causes.” In his historical novel Deadly Waters: The Vietnam Naval War And Its Aftermath the author Randy Miller tells the truth of just how inhumane war is.
Seventeen-year-old Zachariah Martin, a born and bred Vermont farm boy, eager to see the world joins the United States Navy. He is assigned to USS Hawke DD 894 as a deck grunt and sent with his ship to fight in Vietnam. He works hard, follows orders, makes friends, and see things that give him horrific nightmares. All he wants to do is go home and marry his sweetheart. The liberal application of Agent Orange to the Vietnamese coastlines and a bar fight in the Kit Kat Club in the stinky town of Olongapo has repercussions that are still destroying lives today.
Zachariah like the rest of his comrades “had absolutely no doubt that the war to which their leaders were sending them was justified and necessary.” Imagine his heart-breaking disappointment and the betrayal he felt when faced with dire need of medical and financial support from the very government who sent him to fight their “justified and necessary war” is refused. Zachariah fights for the support he desperately needs but like so many he does not win. 299,000 naval veterans who fought in the Vietnamese war have and are being denied aid. Effectively the American Congress has killed more of their own Americans than the Viet Cong ever did. A monstrous betrayal.
Reading this book, I am left wondering how we are ever as humans going to stop the horror that we inflict on ourselves and this our beloved planet. The US marines are portrayed in the press and popular movies as superheroes which in many cases I am sure they are but, in this story, they don’t appear quite so heroic which is an interesting and different point of view. Mr. Muller does not pull his punches this book is graphic, violent, and shocking but then so is war.
The use of colloquial language is difficult to read and I found it annoying however it serves a purpose. It highlights the fact that there are still elements of hostility in the American psyche from their Civil War that ended in April 1865. A hundred years before the war that was documented in this novel.
Randy Miller, the author states “There are more clowns in the 2019 Congress than there ever were in the Ringling Brothers Circus. History will judge these buffoons on this bill and all their other dirty deeds as well. I doubt the verdict will be kind.” Read it and decide for yourself.
I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. A professionally written historical novel that is factually correct and informative.
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Deadly Waters: The Vietnam Naval War And Its Aftermath
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Samuel von Pufendorf wrote in 1673 “More inhumanity has been done by man himself than any other of nature’s causes.” In his historical novel Deadly Waters: The Vietnam Naval War And Its Aftermath the author Randy Miller tells the truth of just how inhumane war is.
Seventeen-year-old Zachariah Martin, a born and bred Vermont farm boy, eager to see the world joins the United States Navy. He is assigned to USS Hawke DD 894 as a deck grunt and sent with his ship to fight in Vietnam. He works hard, follows orders, makes friends, and see things that give him horrific nightmares. All he wants to do is go home and marry his sweetheart. The liberal application of Agent Orange to the Vietnamese coastlines and a bar fight in the Kit Kat Club in the stinky town of Olongapo has repercussions that are still destroying lives today.
Zachariah like the rest of his comrades “had absolutely no doubt that the war to which their leaders were sending them was justified and necessary.” Imagine his heart-breaking disappointment and the betrayal he felt when faced with dire need of medical and financial support from the very government who sent him to fight their “justified and necessary war” is refused. Zachariah fights for the support he desperately needs but like so many he does not win. 299,000 naval veterans who fought in the Vietnamese war have and are being denied aid. Effectively the American Congress has killed more of their own Americans than the Viet Cong ever did. A monstrous betrayal.
Reading this book, I am left wondering how we are ever as humans going to stop the horror that we inflict on ourselves and this our beloved planet. The US marines are portrayed in the press and popular movies as superheroes which in many cases I am sure they are but, in this story, they don’t appear quite so heroic which is an interesting and different point of view. Mr. Muller does not pull his punches this book is graphic, violent, and shocking but then so is war.
The use of colloquial language is difficult to read and I found it annoying however it serves a purpose. It highlights the fact that there are still elements of hostility in the American psyche from their Civil War that ended in April 1865. A hundred years before the war that was documented in this novel.
Randy Miller, the author states “There are more clowns in the 2019 Congress than there ever were in the Ringling Brothers Circus. History will judge these buffoons on this bill and all their other dirty deeds as well. I doubt the verdict will be kind.” Read it and decide for yourself.
I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. A professionally written historical novel that is factually correct and informative.
******
Deadly Waters: The Vietnam Naval War And Its Aftermath
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
