A nine-story anthology: as follows this thing Vietnam is still real. Memoir from 'Silent Violence,' meaning the dead, fear and resolution. Slightly surreal, full of illustrations, photos, and maps. 'The Village on the Beach' where 'The Jack Rabbit Screams,' full of dialogue and poetic prose. 'Broken Weather' is a missing person's murder mystery, a two time'n, two step'n novella, love and lust, trust and mistrust. 'The War' is an oral history, a quick one-year tour of duty. 'Mongoose Bravo' Company B, 1st of the fifth, '67-'68, Black Knights, 1st Air Cavalry. 'The Barn' an 1888 eastern Oregon son, a mellow, imaginary historical mystery, a made-up western yarn. 'July and August Winters' a Montana saga, (1946). 'Travelogue California' 1965 boxcars, fiction on steel, earnest hobos and rounders on the sound of the wheels, witnessing an LA Vietnam protest. 'Travelers of Venice' I hitched a ride with Jim, John, Mary and the quiet lady in an old blue Plymouth, smelling of spent incense, before hippies were a household word. Eating psychedelic mushrooms, sweet yellow apples, drinking dark burgundy wine, heading up Highway 1, the Pacific coast, where the sun doesn't rise, only sparkles like orange sunshine off the waves like a spell...