The Gunny

OK!

I’ve taken to writing my memoirs about my time in Vietnam as an infantry squad leader with the 1st Marine Division.  I served in Vietnam 1970-1971.  It is difficult to write about that time, but I’m not just starting.

I actually started to write about Vietnam in a journal just after returning from in April of 1971 and landing on Okinawa.  We were not allowed to write journals in Vietnam for obvious reasons.  So why did I write it down?  The answer to that is; I do not know.  Maybe I was compelled to write the journal because I needed to get all that junk out of my head.

In any case, that’s where I have decided to go with my remaining years.  At age sixty and fully retired I think it is a good way to spend my time productively.  I started out to write one book about Vietnam, but realized that since I served with three different Battalions that I would strive to write three books.

I have found some mentors that have inspired me to learn the craft of writing and they both are published writers that I found quite by accident.  Two wonderful mature ladies of great life experience that have no connection to military life at all, but have lived extraordinary lives themselves.

Wish me luck as I endeavor to put my thoughts into a writing that will be both readable and worth reading.

Gunny S.