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Boocoo Dinky Dow: My short, crazy Vietnam War

Boocoo Dinky Dow: My short, crazy Vietnam War

Paperback

Military Biographies

ISBN10: 146795568X
ISBN13: 9781467955683
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 17 2012
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.36 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Grady Myers was an artistic but aimless teenager in 1968, when, desperate for troops, the U.S. Army overlooked his extreme nearsightedness and transformed him into Hoss, an M-60 machine gunner. His illustrated memoir Boocoo Dinky Dow: My short, crazy Vietnam War is by turns funny and sobering. Grady recounts his military initiation at Fort Lewis, where there could be a fuzzy line between training and torture. He describes the intensity of Vietnam, where an old man carrying a bundle of sticks posed a moral dilemma and a young man would weigh the burden of his virginity against the dubious pleasures of riverbank prostitutes. Grady's explosives-happy comrades in Charlie Company sometimes posed the greatest danger. But, in a dramatic ambush, that same bunch of crazy soldiers risked their lives to save his. Boocoo Dinky Dow is how American GIs heard the French/Vietnamese phrase beaucoup dien cai dau for very crazy. For more information, visit www.shortcrazyvietnam.com

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