{"product_id":"2940151833189","title":"Doc Jackson's Letters Home: A Combat Medic's 1968 Letters from Vietnam","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrivate E-1 Jerome Jackson’s letters, hurriedly handwritten on muddy paper to his mother from jungles and sandbag bunkers, tell the true, first person, contemporary account of a combat medic, rich with the details of how soldiers survived day to day in a life-threatening landscape. They reveal Doc’s rage against the mismanagement of a military fiasco during what Jackson considered a senseless war. The letters were discovered in his mother’s estate. Interspersed are related recollections as told from his wheelchair to co-author Constance Emerson Crooker, who adds commentary to give context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A testament to raw human courage, the will to persist and survive, even to find grim humor in the absurdity of his fate. A remarkable and truly honest book about war.\" -- Rebecca Pepper Sinkler, Former editor in chief, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fascinating letters from a frontline medic with a need to shield his family from war's horrors and dangers while relating daily details of army life.\" -- Peder Bisbjerg, Environmental Engineer, twenty years experience living and working in Vietnam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a must read for any politician who is thinking of sending young Americans into the carnage of war with the foolish idea of reshaping another country.\" -- John A Wetteland Jr., A Battery, 1\/83d ARTY March 1969-May 1970\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Doc Jackson's legacy of truth is recorded in his letters sent home--history that would become a treasured time capsule.\" --Mike Hastie, Army Medic Vietnam, 1970-71\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jerome J. Jackson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069511942384,"sku":"2940151833189","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151833189_p0.jpg?v=1764013711","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151833189","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}