What passages surprised you?
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What passages surprised you?
What passages did you find surprising and why?
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This was not made up. At the time, the VA hospitals were so overwhelmed with casualties, that the treatment was sub-par on a lot of levels. Some Vietnam veterans will still not allow the VA to treat them. The fact that Boudreau was a marine may have had little to do with it. I found it surprising that he blamed the Navy for all of his problems.
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I agree here. For those of us that have had limited exposure to the Vietnam war, our vision is solely what is presented to us in movies, tv, and textbooks. I have rarely (if ever) seen the Vietnamese naval junks represented in either of those.
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I was also a bit surprised that there was great animosity between the Navy and the Marines. The fighting each other seemed out of control when they had a bigger enemy to fight.
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I can't agree any less. Most times, the system even assassinates the veterans.
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No part surprised me. Maybe because I have been living among the Navy for a long time and know a bit of what is wrong with the system. But this book opened my eyes to a lot of things.djr6090 wrote: ↑05 Nov 2019, 10:54 As I read Deadly Waters some of the passages struck me as being out of tune with the deadly seriousness of the story. The beautiful descriptions of the jungle and the mountains are one example. The tranquility hid such frightening turmoil.
What passages did you find surprising and why?
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