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    Leaving the Alamo, Texas Stories After Vietnam
    Leaving the Alamo, Texas Stories After Vietnam
    Leaving the Alamo, Texas Stories After Vietnam
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    Leaving the Alamo, Texas Stories After Vietnam

    By Dick Stanley

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    Three decades after the Vietnam war was lost, its aging combat veterans cope with the judgments of their stay-at-home peers and the fighting that still goes on in their heads. Here are sixteen stories of middle-aged Texans who are not in prison, panhandling or sleeping under bridges. They have learned to live with the dreams that stalk them at night and lurk in the background during the day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDick Stanley
    Release dateApr 12, 2010
    ISBN9781452370170
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