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    How Can You Mend This Puprle Heart
    How Can You Mend This Puprle Heart
    How Can You Mend This Puprle Heart
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    How Can You Mend This Puprle Heart

    By Terry L. Gould

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    Winner of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, James Webb Award for exemplary writing about the Marine Corps and Marine Corps life; How Can You Mend This Purple Heart is a riveting story of the physical, emotional and mental struggles of war-ravaged young boys. “Purple Heart” is a no-holds-barred, powerful and compassionate portrayal of young Americans who returned from the Vietnam War to the comforting and healing shelter of a military hospital; wounded, frightened and proud.
    The hospital, and the nearby streets and bars of south Philadelphia, become their home; and like any home, it serves as a place to gather, to belong, to struggle, to find support and ultimately, a place to heal. And every day of healing would bring them closer to the day they could go home. A day they would cherish--and fear.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTerry L. Gould
    Release dateNov 15, 2017
    ISBN9781370774562
    How Can You Mend This Puprle Heart
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    Terry L. Gould

    U.S. Navy veteran; served from June 1968 to April 1971. Married with two grand children, lives near Nashville, Tennessee, writes for the fun of it, and currently working on two books that will probably never get finished. Words to live by: Life is not a race unless you want to get to the finish line first.

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