Description

"Fighting the Bad War" follows the travails of a fictional armored cavalry crew as they find themselves intruders in a civil war, neither welcome nor clear about their mission. As body counts and wasted countryside bleed the Vietnamese, the GIs do as soldiers have always done — fight, grieve over their own, try to survive. the enemy is often a friend by day. the return home is nearly as treacherous. this was not their fathers’ “good war.” “I believed in my country’s ideals when I was drafted, but, also, I was young and welcomed the adventure. These stories tell a tale of shattered naïveté,” says Presicci. “I have tried to convey the awe of war and the shame of it.”