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Date Posted: 19:36:49 01/14/16 Thu
Author: lynne higgins
Subject: Hoc Mon, Vietnam 1968

When I was 18, my uncle, age 21, was killed in Hoc Mon. He was more like a brother because we were so close in age and lived close to each other; it was a devastating loss to me and our family. Decades later a friend of mine went to Vietnam and I asked him to take a picture of Hoc Mon. He did better than that. He met some Viet Cong veterans who fought in the same battle that killed Eddy. One of them asked my friend to wait while he went home to get something to give me. Twenty minutes later he returned with a metal box and in it was his battle flag. I was compelled to write a book about it because I believe it was for everyone who suffered a loss in Vietnam, not just for me. It took me five years to write the story, but I've finished and it is for sale at Amazon.com. Type in The Box by Lynne Ludwick if you are interested in reading about this Viet Cong veteran who could have been the one to kill my uncle; Eddy was very special, good to the core, and a hard working young man. The book conveys who he was and the innocence of growing up in the fifties, who the Viet Cong veteran was (what I learned of him) and growing up in Vietnam, and the realities of the Vietnam War, and how I came to receive this amazing gift of forgiveness and remorse.

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