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    Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam
    Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam
    Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam
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    Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam

    By Robert Mason

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    Here is the triumphant sequel to Robert Mason's bestselling account of his service as a chopper pilot in Vietnam. Chickenawk: Back in the World is a moving, no-holds-barred post-Vietnam memoir that reveals the war's shattering legacy in the heart and mind of a returning vet.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781483511481
    Chickenhawk: Back in the World: Life After Vietnam
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    Robert Mason

    Janet McDonald is Associate Professor (Theatre Studies), and is currently the School Coordinator of Creative Arts at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. Robert Mason is Lecturer (Migration and Security Studies) at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

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    • 5/5
      This is what the times were like, although Mason was, even for those times, living an unusual and exceptional life. Frank, humorous account of a lot of talent mostly wasted as a lot of us were prone to doing in that era.
    • 4/5
      This si the sequel to Chickenhawk, which I read 8 Nov 2011, and is a sad but gripping book. The account of the trip to Columbia to pick up 3 and a half tons of marijuana, and of the arrest on a South Carolina river, is well told and full of interest. He finally got Chickenhawk published before he had to report to the prison at Eglin Air Base--a prison for non-violent criminals--and his account of his time there is a vivid insight into prison life. Some might resent the amenities the prisoners have but it simply makes sense that less dangerouc criminals not be treated as harshly as the more evil ones. I found this book consistently interesting and the account of the success of his first book (Chickenhawk) I found overpoweringly poignant..Some of what the author says about bsd effects of our drug laws makes much sense, and certainly the simplest way to end drug trafficking is to permit at least light drugs such as marijuana to be legal--the reduction in prison costs would be staggering and many a drug dealer would have to earn an honest living
    • 4/5
      Continues to serve as a testament for an entire generation. But not even Mason's splendid debut will prepare you for the authority of Chickenhawk: Back in the World, his harrowing quest to find "the most significant thing I lost in that war - peace." Although Mason's return was at first promising - after leaving active combat duty he began instructing future helicopter pilots - it quickly spiraled downward: into bouts of panic and increasingly heavy drinking, adulterous.This sequel to Chickenhawk is a sad but gripping book. The account of the trip to Columbia to pick up three and a half tons of marijuana, and of the arrest on a South Carolina river, is well told and full of interest. He finally got Chickenhawk published before he had to report to the prison at Eglin Air Base--a prison for non-violent criminals--and his account of his time there is a vivid insight into prison life. Some might resent the amenities the prisoners have but it simply makes sense that less dangerouc criminals not be treated as harshly as the more evil ones. I found this book consistently interesting and the account of the success of his first book (Chickenhawk) I found overpoweringly poignant..Some of what the author says about bad effects of our drug laws makes much sense, and certainly the simplest way to end drug trafficking is to permit at least light drugs such as marijuana to be legal--the reduction in prison costs would be staggering and many a drug dealer would have to earn an honest living

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