[IronJack]

This is an excellent book. The epilogue sums it up poignantly:

"For my part, I hope ... to be on a picnic with my family in the park, kicking a soccer ball with my daughter, enjoying my freedom as an American, bought and paid for by men better than I, some of whom I once had the privilege to know."

Burkett destroys the myth of the shattered veteran, the haunted loner, the hair-trigger tortured soul, as well as the "traumatic stress" pretenders and Special Ops wannabes. He does it with a righteous anger, but also a sense of pity in his voice. And in the end, he portrays the Viet Nam veteran as he really is: an American who answered a call, then came home and picked up his life where it left off.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I first saw Mr. Burkett on Jerry Falwell's Listen America a few years back and his story blew me away. Mr. Burkett has not been welcomed by the mainstream media, or Hollywood. If the "little people" can help spread his story, the facts re. Vietnam and our honorable vets, the "peaceniks" and pol-pundit exploiters will be laughed off the stage...hopefully covered by C-Span.