vietnam war, 1961-1975

"Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames--before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death. Against all odds, Kim lived--but her journey toward healing was only beginning. When the napalm bombs dropped, everything Kim knew and relied on exploded along with them: her home, her country's freedom, her childhood innocence and happiness. The coming years would be marked by excruciating treatments for her burns and unrelenting physical pain throughout her body, which were constant reminders of that terrible day. Kim survived the pain of her body ablaze, but how could she possibly survive the pain of her devastated soul? Fire Road is the true story of how she found the answer in a God who suffered Himself; a Savior who truly understood and cared about the depths of her pain. Fire Road is a story of horror and hope, a harrowing tale of a life changed in an instant--and the power and resilience that can only be found in the power of God's mercy and love."--Provided by publisher.

Elena, Marcus, and Fiona time travel to 1972 Minneapolis-Saint Paul, where they attend the State Fair while seeking a werewolf that is associated with the Guthrie Theater.

Ash is forced into a meeting with his adopted father, crime boss "Papa" Dino Golzine, but with Colonel Foxx still on the prowl, and a damaging news story about to break, the situation quickly turns into a final showdown.

Ash has escaped from the mental institution where he was being held captive, taking with him proof of the dangers of the mind control drug banana fish, but crime lord "Papa" Dino Golzine is not about to let Ash go, and hires the mysterious Blanca to recapture the young man at any cost.

The news that Ash has died devastates Eiji, but Ash's posse suspects the truth--that something more sinister is afoot--and begins to make plans to free Ash from the special medical facility where crime lord "Papa" Dino Golzine has arranged for him to become a guinea pig for testing of the mind control drug banana fish.

Ash Lynx, the adopted heir of a crime boss, rejects his father's kingdom and sets up his own gang; however, a chance meeting with a dying man leads him into conflict with his father's mafia and provides a clue to his brother's post-Vietnam madness.

Discusses the history of America's involvement in Vietnam, exploring the deployment of combat ground troops at Da Nang in 1965 to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.

". . . tells the story from the Japanese surrender in 1945 through America's involvement in the French Indochina War and the initial advisory missions that followed. It describes how these missions gradually grew in both scope and scale, and how America became ever more committed to the region, especially following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, which led to the first bombing missions over North Vietnam. It finishes at the climax of one of those operations, Rolling Thunder, and just prior to the first commitment of US ground forces to the war in Vietnam in the spring of 1965"--Amazon.

"From one of the fiercest skirmishes of the Vietnam War to years of seclusion in a mountain cave, Medal of Honor recipient, Gary Beikirch has faced more than his fair share of battles and overcome each of them through perseverance and faith. He inspires readers to do the same"--.

Glyn Haynie shares his Vietnam War experiences as a nineteen-year-old soldier in the First Platoon.