Private 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. "A...
Private E-1 Jerome Jackson's letters, hurriedly handwritten on muddy paper to his mother from jungles and sandbag bunkers, tell the true, first person...
