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The Longest Way Home: A Harrowing Trek from Vietnam through Laos into Thailand
The Longest Way Home: A Harrowing Trek from Vietnam through Laos into Thailand
The Longest Way Home: A Harrowing Trek from Vietnam through Laos into Thailand
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The Longest Way Home: A Harrowing Trek from Vietnam through Laos into Thailand

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Three U.S. servicemen from three different branches of the service find themselves stranded at the very last minute of the last day of the U.S./North Vietnam conflict.

Jake, a special forces sergeant; Harry, a dedicated Marine weapons specialist; and Robert, an Air Force engineer trained in helicopters, find each other after being abandoned by the U.S after the fighting.

They come together with only one objective: to find their way back to friendly territory in Thailand. They move through Laos with the help of the Montagnard tribal people, and the story follows their constant fear and fights with the Viet Cong and the North Vietnam regular soldiers up the Ho Chi Minh Trail. After five years, they finally reach their goal.

This compelling story shows how men determined to make their way to freedom found that their only choice was The Longest Way Home.

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Release dateMay 11, 2012
ISBN9781604145809
The Longest Way Home: A Harrowing Trek from Vietnam through Laos into Thailand
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Arthur H Barnes

Arthur H. Barnes was born in Ventura, CA. He earned a B.A. in professional arts from Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, CA. and an M.A. degree from Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.While serving in the US Navy (1944 -1950) he survived a Kamikaze attack and earned a Purple Heart; and he served in Okinawa, Japan, which experience provided the source of many of the details and flavor of this story. He worked at the Data center of Edwards Air Force Base, CA., in the Major Company for 27 years.He lives with his wife Alvena in Bellingham, WA, a most beautiful city 22 miles south of the Canadian Border and overlooking the San Juan Islands. He has been married from 1950 to the present, and dotes on one “fabulous” grandson.

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