Dear Mom & Dad: Letters Home From Vietnam, 1967 - 1969

By J.J. Ortezky

For over 50 years, a box sat unopened and collecting dust in Barry Bongberg's closet. Painstakingly preserved by his mother five decades earlier, the box contained nearly 300 letters home during his time in Vietnam. In 2020, Barry opened the box.

Six months after his graduation from high school in California, Barry Bongberg was one of 2.2 million men drafted into the Vietnam War between the years of 1964 and 1973. His letters home to his parents span the entirety of his service and take the reader on a rollercoaster of emotions through his tour - the fear, the hopes and dreams, the romantic interests at home and abroad, and the loss of his comrades.

"This is an historically accurate account of the pure hell our soldiers went through as they fought an enemy they did not know; in a land they were not familiar with; and for the most part, a cause they did not understand." - Charles Hildebrand

"Ugliness was everywhere. Guns and bombs, blood and noise, and constant fear that kept this nervous kid up all night and scared all day. So he began writing letters to his parents. He started writing the first day he was in Nam and didn't stop until his last day. These letters home tell the tale of one young man's experience in hell." -Phillip Reeder

This book is the contents of that dusty box: 288 unedited letters home during his 23 months in Vietnam, along with an insightful forward and epilogue by the author.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08VYBN6GF
• ISBN13: 9798571223690
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"