Laura Kalpakian

Undesirable (eBook, ePUB)

The Vietnam War and a Father's Battle for Justice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The powerful true story of a parent's unflagging battle on behalf of a beloved son struggling with PTSD, mental illness, and addiction and a family who bore the burdens of war for decades. In January 1969, angry after a fight with his father, nineteen-year-old Doug Johnsonin what will be a fateful choicedecides to enlist in the Army. Once in Vietnam as a point man, Doug becomes addicted to speed and heroin, goes AWOL multiple times, and is court martialed and imprisoned. In order to avoid a second court martial, he agrees to accept an "undesirable" discharge that denies him veterans' benefits and any recognition of his wartime service. In late August 1970, drugged, malnourished, and clutching the sandal of a dead Viet Cong, Doug staggers off a plane into the arms of his father. But Doug's return home is only the beginning of this story. The core of Undesirable recounts another war: Doug's father against the US Army. For three years, he fights to have his son's "undesirable" discharge changed to "honorable." Half a century later Laura Kalpakiandevoted daughter and sisterexhumes the evidence her father collected. From this trove of documents she assembles a heartbreaking story of a father's love for his son and a son's experience at war. Undesirable: A Father's Odyssey demands that we ask what weand our governmentowe to our veterans for the physical, psychological, and emotional sacrifices they and their families make.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826369802
• Artikelnr.: 75710983

Autorenporträt

Laura Kalpakian is the author of Memory into Memoir: A Writer's Handbook (UNM Press), a memoir, sixteen novels, and five prize-winning collections of short fiction. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.