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MWSA Review
My Purple Heart presents a relevant history of Vietnam from the 19th century that crosses a Southern boy’s unanticipated path to Vietnam. In this memoir, college educated author, F.E. Taylor—married and employed in his field of study—abruptly faces the draft right before his 23rd birthday. His fate includes the fight in Vietnam and return home. In subsequent decades, Taylor only spoke about the war experience once in fifty years.
The book is dedicated to those who wrote him and sent packages while he was in the war and hospital. They and other readers will find a buried treasure, filled with researched history and an almost forgotten warrior's plight.
Review by Hodge Wood (June 2020)
Author's Synopsis
A WWII baby, growing up during the Cold War unknowably trains to be a warrior, is surprised when drafted to fight in Vietnam.
Disillusioned by what he experienced he makes on statement about the War and remained silent for fifty years.
The story ends as he looks back to gain understanding about himself and the War,
ISBN/ASIN: 978-1-73265-390-0
Book Format(s): Soft cover
Review Genre: Nonfiction—Memoir/Biography
Number of Pages: 270