Helpful Score: 3
This memoir reads like a novel and I had a difficult time setting it down. I grew up during the Vietnam war and find the comparisons between it and the wars in the Middle East of interest. Great insight into how they viewed their war.
It always amazes me how quickly people have a crowd mentality in order to save themselves. The way that communities fed on individuals to protect themselves. Also, how some are resilent and what causes one to survive and go forward, where others crumble. I did not view his mother harshly, but hope I never need to learn what I would do to protect my children; which is what she did, while many turned their "half-breeds" out to make the family's life easier.
It always amazes me how quickly people have a crowd mentality in order to save themselves. The way that communities fed on individuals to protect themselves. Also, how some are resilent and what causes one to survive and go forward, where others crumble. I did not view his mother harshly, but hope I never need to learn what I would do to protect my children; which is what she did, while many turned their "half-breeds" out to make the family's life easier.
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