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EPISODE · Oct 10, 2023 · 3 MIN

Exit Wounds: A Vietnam Elegy by Lanny Hunter

from Listen to Trending Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Military · host Vidal Collins

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Exit Wounds: A Vietnam Elegy Author: Lanny Hunter Narrator: Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 50 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: Exit Wounds: A Vietnam Elegy is an intimate, boots-on-the-ground memoir that chronicles one captain’s brutal experience in the Vietnam War. On October 19, 1965, American Special Forces in Vietnam came under attack at their camp at Plei Me. This marked the first major confrontation between the North Vietnamese and US armies during the war. Throughout six days of constant hostile fire, Captain Lanny Hunter sorted the seriously wounded from the dead and saved those comrades-in-arms he could. For his actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In Exit Wounds, Hunter recalls his tour in the central highlands of Vietnam in 1965/66 at the bloody interface of medicine and combat. Paralleling this story is his return in 1997 to find and help his Montagnard interpreter, Y-Kre Mlo, after ten years in a communist reeducation camp. This pilgrimage takes Hunter back to old haunts and battlegrounds—and to a war now seen through a very different lens. Peopled with those who were dedicated, courageous, gentle, proud, profane, and a little mad, this book explores what happens when leaders place personal ambition over honor, and America’s “moral high ground” is soaked with the blood of its young men and women. So much more than a memoir, Exit Wounds is a poetic and profound story that reflects on the human condition, duty, honor, faithfulness, and how the scars remain long after the war is over.

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