Vietnam Days: Memoir of a American Military Intelligence Officer

Vietnam Days is the memoir of an American military intelligence officer's Vietnam War experiences before, during and after the Tet Offensive. William C. Thwing (Bill) tells you not only not only of all his military training leading up to Vietnam, and his experiences as a combat intelligence officer on Operation Fairfax with the 199th Inafntry Brigade but also about his experiences with the Vietnamese people many of whom he worked with daily and got to know intimately. Influenced by his studies of Japanese and Chinese poetry, Bill tells his story in the form of Haibun, Haiga and haiku. His respect and appreciation for the Vietnamese people and their simple way of life comes through clearly. While writing Vietnam Days, Bill and his wife, Joy, lived in Bennington, Vermont surrounded by the rugged beauty of the Green Mountains and the omnipresent spirit of Robert Frost, Gramma Moses and Norman Rockwell. There he was an active member of the Catamont Lane Poets and the Poetry Society of Vermont. Bill is also a published songwriter whose music can be heard on Apple Music, Spotify and i-tunes and Youtube. In addition to Vietnam Days, he has authored three other books - Open Your Eyes, Restless Days and The Song in Your Heart to He now lives in Johnstown Pennsylvania, where he writes and performs his songs and poetry and raises blueberries at his mountaintop cottage