From Amazon
"Clifford L. Hughes was born March 11, 1937 at Youngstown, Ohio. He dropped out of high school at the age of sixteen; he joined the United States Marine Corp at age seventeen. At age twenty-nine he served his first tour of combat duty in South Vietnam: he served is second tour at age thirty- three. In 1973 he retired from the Marine Corps a Gunnery Sergeant. In 1979 he graduated from Fullerton College, Fullerton, California with an Associates of Arts degree. After his retirement he managed several restaurants and sold real estate as licensed California Real Estate Broker. He has been married twice; he has one son three stepdaughters and four grandchildren. He has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; he has written this collection of poetry to help him understand this disease."

From back cover
"Enter a mind infected with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Journey with me, a retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant, through my abusive childhook; read of my truancy from school as early as the first grade; my childhood fantasies and fears will shock you. I ran away from home at age five and continued running away to age sixteen. Read of my Marine Corps enlistment day and the tortures of Marine Boot Camp. Experience a typhoon aboard a troopship and the debilitating seasickness. I will share with you the death and fear of war. You will feel the lonliness of separation from loved ones; the hurt of divorce and broken engagements. You will be no stranger to the hurt of orphaned children or the misery of parents who lost a child"