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Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781977261700
War conditions test the courage, faith and resilience of people. One's ability to cope and adapt is crucial to survival, both physically and emotionally.
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781977271723
Military Police serving in the Vietnam War faced danger and challenges from not only the Viet Cong but also from an unexpected enemy. 13 Moons: Anticipation reveals the inner war encountered by one policeman and the moral and emotional turmoil because of his responses. Ben Thieu Long struggled with intense, conflicted emotions in the final month of his tour. Anxiously anticipating his return home, he reacted erratically to threats to his safety. When he crossed the line, his actions left him with a weight of rage and guilt that he would carry long after his tour ended.
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781977271273
Military Police are typically hard-core and very disciplined. However, after nearly a year in Vietnam, even the most dedicated began to show signs of wavering. Follow one soldier's experience down the rabbit hole of war. Another argument over the war. We see more conflict in the hooch lately than outside the wire. “I’m with Luke,” Sergeant Kaminsky declared. John insisted, “This isn’t your fight.” The Sergeant stepped closer. “People like you are undermining our government.” “I don’t believe that ‘my country right or wrong’ crap!” Tucker scoffed. “Anybody in uniform who doesn’t support this war is a traitor. You’re worse than those anti-war assholes back home,” the Sergeant countered. “It’s a free country. I have the right to free speech." “You don’t have any rights. You follow orders – period!” the Sergeant bellowed. “You’re lucky that bullshit letter from the commie-loving Senator hasn’t been ripped up, Ben,” Luke interjected. Ben cringed. “That's private. It’s inside my footlocker.” Sergeant Kaminski pointed. “THAT isn’t private property. It belongs to the U.S. Government.” “Well, I still have the right to my opinion.” "Only if you keep it to yourself. We don’t want to hear it!”
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781977265531
Military Police enforce regulations and laws. However, some situations in war zones don't fit perfectly inside the lines. Follow the ongoing challenges that one MP faces as he grapples with gray areas between right and wrong in Vietnam.
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781546278184
13 Moons over Vietnam—1st Moon: Innocence Why another memoir on Vietnam? There are already hundreds of publications on the Vietnam War. 13 Moons over Vietnam captures a unique perspective of a soldier’s experience of war, juxtaposing more than 150 stories between the lines of 280 uncensored letters to his wife, who was pregnant with their first child. These stories, describing actual experiences, are conveyed with raw emotions of anxiety and fear, refuting the nonchalant tone of his correspondence home. The effect is a stark and unsettling contrast between what is written home and what actually happens. 13 Moons over Vietnam is organized as a series segmented by lunar cycles that symbolize the author’s struggles with identity and faith as he confronts progressive incidents of social and emotional violence. Begin with 1st Moon: Innocence, and witness a metamorphosis that spirals through a moral and spiritual minefield.
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1684706262
This is a memoir addressing the emotional and ethical effects of war. The format folds a soldier's stories of actual experiences in Vietnam 'between the lines' of letters sent home to his new wife. The stark contrast between those experiences and the content of his letters home reveals a tension between openness and self-censorship. The soldier's focus is to protect their love relationship, but he struggles with his own behavior in an environment of moral challenges. As he encounters social and emotional violence, his own actions trigger inner turmoil and weaken his spiritual well-being. This book is the second in a series, organized by the thirteen months of his tour of duty. Read 2nd Moon: Temptation and follow a soldier's drift into situations that challenge his moral convictions. These encounters begin his metamorphosis from faithful innocence toward detachment, as an internal battle rages for his heart and soul.
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977254187
13 Moons Over Vietnam: 8th Moon Strife If love is a drug, then the separation from love can be an unbearable misery. Numbness, anger, recklessness, and self-loathing are typical emotions during this period. A person is vulnerable to erratic impulses, and their life may feel it's spinning out of control as they struggle to maintain mental and emotional stability. The 8th Moon finds Ben torn between clinging to the joyful memories of his R & R love rendezvous and worrying about the six months remaining in his tour. Heartache demoralized his spirit and sparked erratic behavior. Ben believed it was necessary to emotionally separate his two worlds and concentrate on his physical safety. He resolved to set aside his longing for home and focus on his immediate environment. Thirteen Moons over Vietnam is a thirteen-volume series describing a military policeman's moral and spiritual struggles during the Vietnam War. Although this is one soldier's story, these experiences reflect what veterans across generations have had to contend with during war. Ben Thieu Long (pseudonym) was unprepared as a young soldier for the conditions of war and faltered in the face of powerful temptations. A devout individual, his responses to moral dilemmas shattered his confidence that he would sustain his commitment to his values.
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977240755
Randy tried to encourage Ben in his current dilemma. "There are circumstances when all we can do is accept our conditions. It's important to trust in the Lord and have faith that things happen for a reason." "I'm having a hard time seeing the reason for what's happening." "I don't mean reason from a rational perspective. We have to believe that good can come from bad circumstances," Randy explained. "Great lessons and strength can come from terrible experiences." "We are in a perpetual hell and face a moral dilemma. This reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode where a guy is trapped in a terrifying environment." "Vietnam is a hall of mirrors. We can't find an exit, and the images are distorted moral characterizations of ourselves," Randy agreed. "Well, if things happen for a reason, I wish there was a less traumatic way to learn," Ben whispered. "Sometimes people learn their greatest lessons from the school of hard knocks." "But I'll go crazy before I graduate," Ben sighed.
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 197723691X
Remorse is the fourth volume revealing the author's moral challenges faced during his thirteen-month tour of duty in the Vietnam War. Ben's response to temptations fueled an accelerating struggle over his values, identity, and spiritual well-being. He was increasingly consumed by emotional turmoil and transformed from naïve innocence to self-doubt and alienated detachment. The stories juxtapose the author's experiences 'between the lines' of letters to his new wife, fluctuating between self-censorship and unfiltered explosions. Ben's correspondence dropped to fifteen letters in contrast to forty-eight sent in his first month, reflecting his withdrawal as he hoped to shield his wife from the truth of his behavior and progressively disturbed mental state. Read 4th Moon: Remorse to follow Ben as he stumbles through a minefield of ethical trials which undermines his strength and precipitates a metamorphosis of spirit.
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781728330693
This book is the third volume in a memoir series describing a military policeman’s moral and emotional dilemmas in the Vietnam war. Stories of actual experience are positioned sequentially among actual letters sent home to his new wife. He tries to censor his daily experiences in the letters in an effort to protect their relationship from the contradictions of his behavior and progressively disturbed thoughts.The soldier’s responses to temptation trigger an inner battle over values, identity, and spiritual well-being. His actions and subsequent turmoil prompt a transformation from naïve innocence toward alienated detachment. 3rd Moon: Discord highlights his responses to temptation that challenge his moral convictions. His journey through a minefield of ethical trials undercuts his strength of commitment and precipitates a metamorphosis of mind and spirit.
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1977264662
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1977251781
Heartache: The Struggle to Protect Love The view that truth is the first casualty of war has a long lineage initially attributed to Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy. Our author poses that innocent love is truth's younger sibling and the second casualty. Love is the antithesis of war. Love radiates a protective and endearing orientation toward others, whereas war rides roughshod over civility and compassion. When bluntly executed, which is its very nature, war prioritizes the subjection or destruction of our fellow man. Love is an intense human emotion and a powerful influence on behavior. But, men take different paths to protect their spirit of love during wartime conditions. Some strive to sustain themselves by clinging to thoughts of love. They hope that focusing on love will provide a sanctuary from loneliness and the horror of war. Other men choose to bury their feelings, rationalizing their best survival chances will come from fully concentrating on immediate circumstances. Finally, another approach is taken by those believing they have the power to control the innate tension between love and war. These individuals kept their hearts open toward love while engaged in the violence of human conflict. Ben Thieu Long tried each approach in his struggle to protect love, with mixed results and costly consequences. War powerfully affects participants, as the experience can produce more emotional pain than physical injury. War mutilates the human psyche and leaves deep scars, while men are left vulnerable when their refuge of love collapses. One of the most damaging consequences of a wartime experience is the formation of a wedge partitioning a person's emotions into discrete, isolated chambers. Men may still experience love after a war, but some permanently have lost the fullness of their innocence. Instead, these men tend to withdraw to a corner, like an abused child nervously fearing the next painful blow. They lose their unguarded openness to others, e
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1977261957
Military Police enforce regulations and laws. However, some situations in war zones don't fit perfectly inside the lines. Follow the ongoing challenges that one MP faces as he grapples with gray areas between right and wrong in Vietnam.
Author : Ben Thieu Long
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1977261051
Military Police are typically hard-core and very disciplined. However, after nearly a year in Vietnam, even the most dedicated began to show signs of wavering. Follow one soldier's experience down the rabbit hole of war. Another argument over the war. We see more conflict in the hooch lately than outside the wire. "I'm with Luke," Sergeant Kaminsky declared. John insisted, "This isn't your fight." The Sergeant stepped closer. "People like you are undermining our government." "I don't believe that 'my country right or wrong' crap!" Tucker scoffed. "Anybody in uniform who doesn't support this war is a traitor. You're worse than those anti-war assholes back home," the Sergeant countered. "It's a free country. I have the right to free speech." "You don't have any rights. You follow orders - period!" the Sergeant bellowed. "You're lucky that bullshit letter from the commie-loving Senator hasn't been ripped up, Ben," Luke interjected. Ben cringed. "That's private. It's inside my footlocker." Sergeant Kaminski pointed. "THAT isn't private property. It belongs to the U.S. Government." "Well, I still have the right to my opinion.""Only if you keep it to yourself. We don't want to hear it!"
Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429931113
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. ______ Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.