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Using a compass to immediate him in his job as a forwards observer and a personal camera to file his activities - and keep him connected to his creative part - Vietnam veteran Steven Burchik was fortunate to make it home and years later decided to reveal the most challenging time of his life. Like any experience, his time put in with the First Infantry Department stationed in the rice paddies near Saigon included good times as well as bad. He candidly recalls how, although he assumed communism to be a serious threat on the globe, he soon learned a guerilla battle is a difficult one to combat, and survival somewhat than win quickly became his target. But he also remembers the exhilaration of helicopter trips over serpentine streams and the time he introduced town kids to a gumball machine. A unique memoir of the battle, Compass and a Camera pulls not only from Burchik's recollections, but also from the daily letters he wrote to his fiancée (she retained every one). This booklet is a must-have for any history buff or fellow veteran.
