The Wall Of Broken Dreams
                               A Novel
                               They fought,                                                 
                             
  they dreamed-
               
    Some died, some survived.
                        
      Or did they?
       
      A Vietnam story by a Vietnam Vet
Now available from Night Bandit Publishing
  
copyright
Robert
Hoderine
Battle on the      
Bong Son Plains
Valentine's day    
         1967
Seven men died
that day.
Photos by Robrt
Hoderine
1/8 Cav. Airborne Delta Recon at Bong Son, Oct. 66-Duke center front, Sergeant "Rock" Musial, combat legend,            
                                center standing. Some of these men were lost between 12/66 and Valentine's Day 67
Frank Bishop before patrol
Presidential award for combat action
First Battalion- Eighth Cavalry
(Airborne)
First Air Cavalry Division
101st Airborne jump viveo
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“Duke Barrett takes the sacred elements of the “Nam
Experience” and weaves them into a synthesis that is the true,
fundamental foundation of any authentic story about the war in
Vietnam, be it a memoir or a work of fiction, and makes it a
meaningful background to his novel.

“This story is an adventure but be prepared for an emotional
and inspirational journey, as well. But then, when you wake up,
maybe all that you just read was just a dream!”

From the foreword by W.H. McDonald
W. H. “Bill” McDonald Jr.
Past President and founder of The Military Writers Society of
America (MWSA)______
So often we think about war in abstract terms
but Vietnam vet,  Duke Barrett, has made the
traumatic and long-lasting implications of battle
spring to life in this poignant story about the
courage, loyalty, patriotism and conflict of a
young soldier.  We root for him to realize his
dreams, knowing fully well that the deck is
stacked against him.

Sigrid Macdonald, editor and author of D'Amour
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