David B. Boone

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Burnsville
NC

"I believe my luck came from a buckeye my grandfather gave me before I left the states. I brought 14 additional buckeyes with me and shared them with my fellow soldiers. We joked about this often, and for some, the luck held out and safely brought us back home. During my service, I purchased a guitar in one of the villages in Vietnam and the guitar soon became the best soldier in the outfit. Music brought us together as we sang to pass the time. One of the songs was entitled “Sing Me Back Home” which became the title of my book when I got back home. It tells of our true encounters, but mostly I wrote it so my 2 children and 5 grandchildren would understand that after all the bad things that were said about the war and U.S. soldiers, that we were not the enemy, yet got a bad rap. We fought hard and long and won most if not all of our battles, but not without losing many soldiers in the process. We cared about civilians and took measures not to hurt anyone we were not supposed to be firing upon, regardless of how Hollywood movies have documented it. I wanted to tell the story as to how I saw it. We patched up and helped many wounded VC, we cared about everyone”

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