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What is All Her Boys about?

"The more distance we gain from the war in Vietnam, the more we tend to theorize about its significance in history and to forget the grueling, brutal reality of it. All her Boys compels us to remember. By reliving his experience as a "grunt" in the "boonies"--The Vietnam jungle -- Richard A. Luttrell also reminds us that those who had to grapple with that reality were for the most part not hardened professional soldiers for whom war was a way of life. Rather they were teenaged boys -- young, innocent, lonely and scared. With unforgettable vividness, Mr. Luttrell recaptures what it was like to be one of those boys, suddenly torn from home and country and forced to face the horrors of guerilla combat, watching your brothers in arms maimed and killed all around you and coping with the knowledge that their fate could be yours at any moment. For all their patriotism, courage and inextinguishable will to survive, they were still just kids at heart, and what sustained many of them through it all was something much less "manly" -- the love of their mothers back home. Drawing extensively on his own wartime letters to his mother, Mr. Luttrell uses these excerpts to help him recreate the war

Author

Luttrell, Richard A.

Publisher

Carlton Press, c1990.

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806235738