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Review
After reading Purple Hearts, I
realized it was not only for
those who served in Vietnam, it
was for their families as well.
It is also of importance to the
student, researcher, the
historian, not to mention the
poet in all of us.
The majority of books by Vietnam
Veterans were written after the
fact, relying on memories.
Bill’s words, captured in stolen
moments, are snapshots frozen in
time.
In
an age when our young boys
should have been tinkering with
hot rods and having their photos
taken with giggling girls, fate
ripped many from the fabric of
American normalcy and threw them
into a caldron of fire from
which there were only two
escapes: death or surviving a
tour of duty. Bill traded his
hot rod for a Huey, his giggling
girl for a M-60, and did what
all soldiers did—prayed to make
it through one more day.
In
a vivid time wrap of words, you
will sit beside a young poet,
pencil in his trembling hand, as
he scribbles on crumpled and
torn paper. Through monsoons
and the unbearable heat of
searing noonday suns, you will
feel the power of Vietnam.
In
Purple Hearts, Bill will take
veterans by the hand and
tenderly walk them to a higher
place in their journey to inner
peace. Though the road to
healing can be fraught with
pitfalls, Purple Hearts shines a
spiritual light into the
darkness, exposing the imaginary
ghosts and monsters that haunt
man veterans.
Wives and children will come
away with a better understanding
of their loved ones who, at a
young age, were robbed of their
innocence. This book will make
you want to hold your husband,
father, or grandfather tight,
and your wives mothers, and
grandmothers as well, for the
women of Vietnam sacrificed much
for our soldiers.
Though the poems in this book
were written by a sole author,
they are the stories of all our
unsung heroes. Purple Hearts is
about wasted youth, lost dreams,
dying, death, and rebirth; but
most important it is about
forgiveness. Without
forgiveness one can never heal.
So
grab a box of tissue, find a
quiet place, and take a journey
with a true spiritual warrior
into Purple Hearts. |
