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In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray arrived in South Vietnam as a lately married, newly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment had not been enviable: leading the platoon whose past members had devoted the My Lai massacre--the murder of a huge selection of Vietnamese civilians--18 a few months earlier. With this convincing memoir, he shares his experience of Vietnam in the direct wake of this terrible event. After My Lai documents the war's horrific results on both factors of the have difficulty. Bray presents the Vietnam conflict as the touchstone of a generation, informing how his emotions about being truly a soldier--a family tradition--were drastically changed by the happenings he participated in and observed. He explains how young men, angered by the fatalities of comrades and with no release because of their frustration, will often cross the line of legal and moral behavior. Bray's bank account differs from many Vietnam memoirs in his vivid explanations of platoon-level tactical functions. As he creates suspense in moment-by-moment depictions of men plunging into jungle gloom and tragedy, he shows that what resulted in My Lai is easier to comprehend once you've walked the booby-trapped floor yourself. An intensely personal account, gracefully rendered yet brutally honest, After My Lai uncovers how warfare changes you permanently. The publication is printed by College or university of Oklahoma Press.
