Exit Wounds
A Vietnam Elegy
by Lanny Hunter
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Pub Date Oct 10 2023 | Archive Date Oct 24 2023
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Description
Exit Wounds: A Vietnam Elegy is an intimate, boots-on-the-ground memoir that chronicles one captain’s brutal experience in the Vietnam War.
On October 19, 1965, American Special Forces in Vietnam came under attack at their camp at Plei Me. This marked the first major confrontation between the North Vietnamese and US armies during the war. Throughout six days of constant hostile fire, Captain Lanny Hunter sorted the seriously wounded from the dead and saved those comrades-in-arms he could. For his actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
In Exit Wounds, Hunter recalls his tour in the central highlands of Vietnam in 1965/66 at the bloody interface of medicine and combat. Paralleling this story is his return in 1997 to find and help his Montagnard interpreter, Y-Kre Mlo, after ten years in a communist reeducation camp. This pilgrimage takes Hunter back to old haunts and battlegrounds—and to a war now seen through a very different lens.
Peopled with those who were dedicated, courageous, gentle, proud, profane, and a little mad, this book explores what happens when leaders place personal ambition over honor, and America’s “moral high ground” is soaked with the blood of its young men and women. So much more than a memoir, Exit Wounds is a poetic and profound story that reflects on the human condition, duty, honor, faithfulness, and how the scars remain long after the war is over.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
“This book is important, and I urge every American, veteran and civilian alike, to read it. Lanny Hunter has much to teach us and the skill to do it well.”
John Musgrave, USMC, author and narrator for Ken Burns’ series The Vietnam War
“Hunter’s command of the English language makes reading this a pleasure; his writing both educates and informs us of his experiences. Though other physicians have written extraordinary books about the Vietnam War, this book has a very important difference—Hunter’s unique perspective. As a Special Forces physician working with the CIDG, he was a ‘warrior doctor,’ holding two distinctly different jobs with conflicting objectives and philosophies. How Hunter excelled at both jobs is a great story well told. This book is important and I urge every American, veteran and civilian alike, to read it. Lanny Hunter has much to teach us and the skill to do it well.”
John Musgrave, USMC, Vietnam, 1967, author, poet, counselor, veterans’ affairs advocate, and commentator for Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War
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- National and regional print and online reviews
- Author interviews and features
- Military history interest buzz mailing
- Social media campaign
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9798200905096 |
| PRICE | $27.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 305 |
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