The Duality of Detachment

By Bruce Kirschner

"You know you got to go through hell
Before you get to heaven" (Jet Airliner / The Steve Miller Band)

In the wake of every war, the young men and women who've served in the military have come home changed by their experiences. Said changes sometimes being fairly obvious and sometimes far less so, and sometimes far more insidious... Coming back different and distant... and sometimes dead.

For America's Vietnam veterans there were no welcome home parades, and nobody hailed them as conquering heroes... Instead, they were spit on, shit on, and largely shunned by the country that they'd served and sacrificed for. These were men and women who desperately needed to talk about what they'd been through... what they'd seen and done in the name of their country... but in the late 60s and on into the 70s, there was pretty much nobody who wanted to listen.

"The Duality of Detachment" follows Jay Weber, a returning Vietnam veteran, from the moment he steps off a bus at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City, in August of 1969, through the years, and the fears, and the tears that followed. A man dealing with his demons, wanting nothing more than to find his way back into what was as yet, a pre-PTSD aware world... A journey that takes him from a low rent apartment in Manhattan's East Village, to the sunbaked streets of Key West, Florida... Finding friends, romance and redemption along the way.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F8437TXV
• ISBN13: 9798281171687
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"