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A case study in the development of a junior officer, Tripp's polished Vietnam memoir focuses on his six months as an infantry platoon leader in 1968. As Tripp, a TV producer, farmer and children's writer (Thunderstorm!), tells it, self-doubt and confusion never quite left him in Vietnam; instead, they fostered a sense of responsibility for the men under his command. In Vietnam, Tripp began for the first time in his life to trust his instincts and behavior-and however other units may have behaved, Tripp's battalion, the 1/28th Infantry, 1st Division, emerges from these pages as an outfit that knew how to fight and that fought well. In these respects, Tripp's account is similar to many war memoirs. It is individualized, however, as the title suggests: Tripp was strongly influenced by his ambivalent relationship with a father who suffered repeated psychotic episodes. His behavior in Vietnam was structured by a corresponding desire to prove himself and to find himself; and his disordered postwar life was influenced not only by his wartime experiences but also by a fear that his own sons might develop the cystic fibrosis hereditary in Tripp's family. Most Vietnam literature presents American participants as blank slates on whom war wrote its story unimpaired. Tripp's chronicle is a powerful reminder that men and women carry a life's worth of baggage when they go to war, as well as when they return. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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A metaphor-heavy, intelligently crafted memoir focusing on the author's life-altering Vietnam War experiences. Tripp (a writer and film producer) spent a year as a US Army First Infantry Division lieutenant in Vietnam in 196869. Tripp tells his Vietnam story exceptionally well, intimately detailing the physical and emotional landscapes he traversed in the war zone. What he experienced, in the main, was death, brutality, betrayal, and searing emotional trauma. Tripp recreates his psyche-scarring experiences in a bluntly self-critical manner, referring often to his terrors, self-doubts, failures, and emotional crises. He also expresses deep anger--``an anger that was so great that it took years and years to dissipate''--and bitterness about the American war in Vietnam. ``There was nothing heroic here,'' Tripp says, ``we were being pushed by old men with self-serving ideas, pushed to the brink of death just to glorify old men.'' Tripp's account of what happened to him in Vietnam is a noteworthy accomplishment. But his book is more than a war memoir; Tripp weaves in the themes of his life before, during, and after Vietnam. The main theme is Tripp's turbulent relationship with his father, a deeply troubled man who left his family when the author was a baby and with whom Tripp, as an adult, attempted reconciliation. Tripp refers often to his father's WW II experiences, their tempestuous interactions, and their shared love of the sea. Tripp's other themes are manhood, leadership, mental illness, his own experiences of fatherhood, and his love for the outdoors. In a narrative filled with densely packed prose--and, thankfully, without reconstructed dialogue-- Tripp tells an amazing story, and tells it creatively, intelligently, and effectively. A cautionary, antiheroic tale of war and manhood.
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Written by an Army platoon commander, this memoir is, on one level, a compellingly vivid look into the conduct of the ground war against an increasingly sophisticated enemy by a decreasingly effective American military in the months after the 1968 Tet Offensive. Tripp's work addresses questions about America's morale, intent, and leadership. However, it involves a moving and candid personal narrative, drawing parallels to the author's relationship with a father whose military career was ended by mental illness. Tripp's work explores the paternal concerns for his platoon members (and, in lyrical sidebars, of the evolving love for his children) and explores the themes of doubt, courage, and commitment in terms of both the war experience and those other battles that one must face in life. Tripp has created seamlessly riveting prose, full of recollections of combat that are chillingly accurate. This is enduring literature; recommended wholeheartedly for all collections, especially military ones.Mel D. Lane, Sacramento, Cal. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.