John Wilson (73)
Author of Coming Home: Reflections of Vietnam
For other authors named John Wilson, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
John Wilson was born in 1943 in London. He is a British angler who has been involved with angling television production for the last 20 years. He is featured on Discovery Real Time and was voted 'The Greatest Angler of all Time' in a 2004 poll by readers of the Angling Times Newspaper. Wilson was show more awarded a MBE in the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours List. His book titles include Another Fishing Year, John Wilson's 1001 Top Angling Tips, Sixty years a Fisherman, and Catch Carp and Tench with John Wilson. His book New Zealand Mountaineering: A History in Photographs made the New Zealand Best Seller List in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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This was a powerful, but short, book of poetry. I can't begin to tell you what it means to someone like me who hit the teen years at the same time as most of the Vietnam War. When were we such a stupid group of Americans? I'd say no more so than this particular time. Veterans were shamed. Veterans were accused of all sorts of things, and yet they were the ones who were sure they were fighting for US, the people of the United States of America. We turned our backs on them. This is their story show more in a group of poems that deal, not with the facts, but with amazing emotions and feelings. This is our Vietnam Veterans, their families and the families of those who didn't make it. It doesn't take much time. Honestly. And it's worth every word, especially if you were with them in spirit from 1965 on. show less
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