Remf Diary

By David A. Willson

Book Overview

This is how it was to be a REMF in Vietnam- the ice cream, the Coca Cola, the air conditioning, the clean, starched jungle fatigues, and yes, the parades and the whores, I leave nothing out; it is all... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930773063
• ISBN13: 9780930773069
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Black Heron Press
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Unique Vietnam War Story With Unusual Anti-Hero Theme

As a Vietnam veteran, this book made me chuckle with the author's well-depicted description of what it was like being a lowly clerk in a non-combatant environment. No one else, and this is important; because of the real courage it takes to tell about one's "real" war experiences, which are often not daring exacerbations of Herculean heroics as depicted in many books about Nam, has cut out the self-serving---"I won the war single-handed," chaff, like the simple well-written satire of David Willson. In one form or another, we all complained in Vietnam. What I have liked about the book is that it reeks not the John Wayne bull (No offense intended to the ninty-nine percent of those who served as Navy SEAL's, Green Berets, CIA ['So bad, man---I still can't talk about it.'], and the several hundred Spartacus clones who arrived back in "the World" with a genuine shrunken head of Ho Chi Minh dangling from a dried piece of enemy intestine around their necks.) I can identify with all said, and this must have been hard to write---No other book covers REMF's (Rear Echelon Mother F-----'s) with true candor like this. A rare jewel for the serious student of the Vietnam war, but God knows the author's photo on the cover will never make an Army recruiting poster. The ending is a fitting climax to a very unusual, well-written, and honest down-to-earth book about the finer aspects of the war in Vietnam. Sincerely, Franklin D. Rast, author, "Don's Nam," and "Ghosts In The Wire."

I Loved This Book!

With tongue firmly planted in cheek, David A. Willson presents another side of the Vietnam War, the nonRambo rear echelon. The main character in REMF Diary, an army clerk, is funny, wise, sarcastic, and philosophical. I loved this book! Diana J. Dell, author, A Saigon Party: And Other Vietnam War Short Stories.

Honesty hurts

David Willson has written an honest book on war. There are no heroes, no glory, no war booty, but there is lots of typing. The boredom of military life shines through in this rare book. The REMF perspective is the most well known among veterans, but the least understood among the non-veterans. Read this and believe it.