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What Had to be Done/What Has to be Said: A Combat Medic Remembers the War on Vietnam on the 50th Anniversary of Vietnamese Reunification

What Had to be Done/What Has to be Said: A Combat Medic Remembers the War on Vietnam on the 50th Anniversary of Vietnamese Reunification

Moran, Joseph Daniel

Paperback

Biographies GeneralMedical ReferenceGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN13: 9798295741890
Publisher: Joseph Daniel Moran
Published: Apr 13 2026
Pages: 376
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

By virtue of the author's training something had to be done, by virtue of his witness something has to be said. This book is about those things. It is foremost a memoir of the authors time in the War on Vietnam as a young combat medic. The book was precipitated by a flashback experience, a vivid memory of an event that took place in August 1969. At that time he realized that War on Vietnam was still inside him waiting to be told. Within it he shares experiences and observations that remain fresh about a war that was both tragic and unnecesary. A war that resulted from faulty assumptions and misguided tactics. He speaks about the medic and corpsman role as being the interface between life and death and knowing this their special burden. He shares his metamorphosis in thinking about the war and realization that in his role as a life saver he was in effect preserving soldier lives so they might kill or be killed on another day.

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