Uncounted Casualties of the Vietnam War by Magee Gonzales
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Overview: In a blinding monsoon rain, First Officer, Daniel O’Brien, Jr. reported flying conditions for Flying Tiger turbo prop CL- 44 flight #N228SW. The tower at DaNang Airbase heard his calm, clear voice. “Visibility insufficient. We lack additional fuel for an alternate aerodrome. Request a ground controlled approach.”
Before the tower could respond, at exactly 19;15, the plane abruptly lost airspeed. It hit the ground cutting a three hundred yard swath through the hamlet of Binh Thai and burst into flames. The four man crew perished along with one hundred eleven villagers. None of these casualties was included in the war’s official count. In fact, official casualty counts of all wars ignore the impact upon innocents and survivors.
Approximately ninety kilometers from DaNang, at the Chu Lai military base, Nicholas Archuleta, a young marine sniper, was also far from home on that tragic Christmas Eve. Unlike the crew of flight #N228SW, he would return home, albeit changed forever by his experiences in the jungle. Nick became an uncounted casualty harboring invisible wounds. He would return to his countrymen, not as a hero, but as a societal outcast dubbed “baby killer” by those opposed to the war.
Molly Margaret McGee, only twenty years old when the love of her life, Danny O’Brien, was cruelly snatched from her by that Christmas Eve tragedy. As she became a reluctant inductee of the uncounted casualties club, Molly struggled to find the will to keep breathing. Slowly, cautiously, she tiptoed back into society, only to become ensnared in the insidious aftereffects of jungle warfare identified as PTSD. She resisted at first, but eventually succumbed to the charms of Nicholas Archuleta, just as her best friend, Tess predicted.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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