Sergeant Brown left the battlefield of Vietnamin November of 1968 hospital bound on a stretcher after eleven months of brutal infantry jungle. Like many who saw combat, he unknowingly carried with him the Bloodless Wound or PTSD .......Brown dealt with his newly discovered PTSD and its accompanying visions and flashbacks by first writing poetry. This form of self-therapy seemed to help. So he continued by performing his works in front of an audience and writing stories about his experiences. As a result, the book reads more as a series of loosely connected flashbacks more than as a concrete historical account. These flashbacks makes sense if the reader approaches this story as a psychological journey ....." From authors webpage