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Prove My Soul: Another Side to the Vietnam War

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

From 1966-1967, Brian M. Biggs served a unique tour of duty in Vietnam as a Marine Civic Action Officer, an assignment that included teaching English to elementary school teachers in the village of Hoà M? – a life-changing experience that developed cherished friendships which have lasted to this day. His three return trips to Vietnam in 2001, 2004, and 2006 allowed those friendships to flourish. Those visits also unraveled a mystery born out of the chaos and confusion that was the Vietnam War. A mystery that mistakenly cast him as a spy for the South Vietnamese government and brought to light the role he played in the fate of one of the teachers suspected of being Vietcong. Biggs’s Prove My Soul: Another Side to the…

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Livestream Reading: Jack Estes

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Portland author Jack Estes for a livestream readings from his latest novel, Searching for Gurney. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtfu-gpjMpGNMTQTTvICrt-2_SfXSyYru3 About the book: Searching for Gurney explores the damaged lives of three U.S. Marines and one North Vietnamese soldier in the late 1960s and '70s. Each character's story begins at a different place-JT, home and struggling with flashbacks; Coop, on leave and getting drunk at his grandfather's funeral; Hawkeye, at the moment a judge gives him the choice of jail or boot camp; and Vuong, leaving his small village to join the NVA with patriotic fervor. Sent home after a horrific ambush, the Marines face new battles with PTSD and a hostile American public that treats them as criminals. Nightmares, anger, and substance…

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