Vietnam veterans with no leg to stand on

Nov. 11, 2010 - PRLog -- The Vietnam War was not the most popular of wars and the young men who fought in it were often quickly swept under the carpet rather than being exalted as war heroes.

Hundreds of thousands of fit young men were horrendously injured and maimed during the conflict.

Terry (TL) Gould just happened to be in the navy in 1968 when he was involved in a fatal car crash which led him to spend 15 months in the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia among marines and other naval combatants who were mostly recovering from appalling injuries sustained by their stepping on landmines, or by their neighbor doing so.

‘How Will You Mend This Purple Heart?’ is a fictional account of Terry’s memories of this time, of the people who had to cope with being hale and hearty one minute and crippled for life the next.

It is a moving account and surprisingly optimistic, laced with much humor and some acerbic observations about the attitudes of admirals and peaceniks alike.

In honoring the veterans, we should not forget to honor those maimed in battle also, even those who valiantly took part in the war that dare not speak its name.

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