Bøger af John Philip Liberto

Over the last fifty years or more, countless books have been written about the Vietnam War. The vast majority are about the daily experiences of the combat soldiers, marines and fighter pilots; strategies of the hard fought battles; heroes of the war who gave their lives to save others; etc, etc. But John Liberto has a different prospective of the war. It's been estimated that for every solider fighting the enemy there are forty to fifty military personnel backing him up; pilots, medics ( doctors and nurses ), office personnel, truck drivers, equipment mechanics, supply clerks, cooks; the list goes on and on. As a nineteen year old Army helicopter mechanic in a war zone he saw the war from a different prospective. He doesn't have a continuous war story to tell but this book contains seventeen different short stories about some of his experiences in the Army, most of them from his year in Vietnam.

John Philip Liberto was born in Memphis, Tennessee. At the age of nineteen he joined the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam War where he was exposed to the chemical Agent Orange. After his discharge from the Army he attended State Technical Institute at Memphis where he earned a degree in Architectural Engineering. He obtained his architectural licenses in Tennessee and Virginia and spent over forty years in architecture and construction site inspections before retiring in 2013. He and his wife of forty three years, Sandra, live in Fuquay, Varina, NC. They have two married children ; Lauren (Jason) and Jeffrey (Jenna) and five grandkids ; Carter, Stella (deceased), Jenson, Ellen and Jennings. John accepted Christ as his savior and was baptized at the age of eleven. Although John has written several short stories over the years this is his first published work.