
A Filthy Way to Die
Collected Memories of the Vietnam War
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Ed Linz

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The horrific losses were not limited to the 58,000 Americans who lost their lives and over 300,000 others who were wounded, but included three million Vietnamese (many of whom were innocent civilians) and countless Laotians and Cambodians.
Linz presents background information explaining how the United States became involved in a decades-long diplomatic slippery slope leading to American Marines coming ashore at Da Nang in early 1965, just prior to his class graduating from the Naval Academy. He describes how each officer, many of whom could not locate Vietnam on a map when entering the Academy in 1961, ended up fighting a frustrating, and deadly, war halfway around the world. Nine of these classmates died during service in Vietnam, some following capture by the enemy. It was indeed a filthy way to die.
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Mispronunciation of towns, regions, some terms
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virtual reader woes
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It is terribly distracting in the AI stumbles over the simplest words such as "below", pronouncing it "bellow." U.S.N.A., the naval academy is pronounced "yewsnah." Dumb, Amazon. If you are going to make us supper through this artificial narration, at least don't make it terrible.
The story is pretty interesting. It is very similar to A Long Gray Line, as it focuses on a particular year of graduates from military academies. If you are familiar with Vietnam War history, you may learn a little thing or two here, but there are no big (or small) revelations to be certain. It is a series of personal account accounts and those accounts are general in nature...too much so, I think. The book could have been made much better had more time been taken to dig deeper into the stories told by each of these brave men.
AI narration is overly distracting...story is good!
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Artificial Intelligence reading stinks
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didn't cover enough for it's title
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