... of Bags, Counts and Nightmares
By Ron Marks
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Day to day, while humping the thick jungles of Vietnam, Bauer escapes one days nightmare only to be engulfed in more gruesome ones in following days. His assigned mission is to seek and destroy the enemy. However, his immediate mission becomes the struggle to outlast the enemy while battling constant sorrow and hardship. Equally important, he must avoid occupying the next body bag tagged for appropriate disposal. He has to kill or be killed and do his part to increase the enemy body count, the bloody measure of who is winning. Bauer finds himself trapped in this brutal and morally confusing nether world. During his journey through hell he meets a precocious young nurse while convalescing. She unknowingly becomes the incentive Bauer needs to endure his ordeal.
This is Bauers story, his struggle to rationalize the need for war and the carnage it creates. He is troubled by his exposure to combat and the changes he sees within himself, which he knows might haunt him the rest of his life.
Ron Marks
Ron marks composed this manuscript in his mind many times over for years. At 65 and forty years returning from Southeast Asia, he decided to write his first novel. Marks served in the Army with the 1st Infantry Division and the 173d Airborne Brigade in South Vietnam from 1968-1970. His passions are the welfare of veterans, and conservation and preservation, especially, that of wild cheetahs. He is also a strong advocate of health and fitness. The author resides in Fairfax, Virginia.
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