Toshio Whelchel is a first-generation Japanese American living in Los Angeles. He served with the US Marine Corps from 1977 to 1981 and is currently researching an oral history of homeless Vietnam veterans, history professor at IVC

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"A collection of deeply moving anti-war poetry raging against the inhumanity of war and the deeply personal human experience of war as imagined through the eyes of a former ex-US Marine Corp veteran"