Vietnam Did It
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We were surprised when the lights went out in the cabin. No aisle lights, no overhead lights, no wing lights. Dark. And quiet. Still. Suddenly all our thoughts were focused on the same thing. We were approaching Da Nang Air Base and the lights were turned out to hide us from enemy fire. No more laughing and joking. Some of us were entering a nightmare; some of us were approaching our Final Descent. Perhaps we all joined in a collective, nonverbalized prayer for survival.
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A shy, immature, reluctant young soldier finds himself on a darkened jet, making his descent onto an airfield in Vietnam.
What Larry Long didn’t realize, however, was that he was also descending into a hole of pot, booze, and pills—one that would take him years to escape.
In this memoir, he looks back at his army service, beginning with the worst eight weeks of his life: basic training. During that time, he didn’t make any friends or gain any self-confidence. All he did was long for home.
Having received his draft notice, he was on that plane because he had to be—it was not about fighting communism or fighting for freedom.
After experiencing the hell of war, he returned home and made friends with a co-worker who turned him on to something called amphetamines. The only problem was they prevented him from sleeping, but smoking marijuana solved the problem.
Join the author as he recalls the evils of war and how the Lord transformed him from being someone whose body took him where he didn’t want to go to a man whose spirit takes his body to where it is happy to go.
About the Author
Larry Long has served in ministry forty years, having been supernaturally delivered from alcohol at a church healing service. His world had gone from light to dark, from Sunday School to “Jungle School.” A spiritual fuse had blown as a result of his service in Vietnam.