The Second Tour: 3rd Edition - Softcover

Rizzuti, Mr. Terry P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692797181 ISBN 13: 9780692797181

Publisher: Terry P. Rizzuti, 2016

Synopsis

The Second Tour is the story of a murdered Vietnamese girl who comes back to haunt the narrator, a low-level combat Marine.

About this title

About the Author

Terry P. Rizzuti was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in 1946, to second-generation Italian-Americans. He spent much of his early youth in Rome, New York, and surrounding towns before moving back to Oklahoma in 1965. He joined the Marine Corps in 1966 and served a tour in the northern I-Corps area of South Vietnam as a “grunt” from October 1966 to November 1967 assigned to the 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division, occasionally attached to the 1st or 3rd Divisions. He was awarded the Purple Heart for shrapnel wounds received on May 2, 1967. Rizzuti graduated with an English Literature degree from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 1977, and then completed two years of graduate-level literature studies. He worked in various OU positions between 1980 and 1996, and helped found OU’s Vietnam Memorial Scholarship Association. He is a life member of The American Legion, The Veterans of Foreign Wars, The Disabled American Veterans, and The Khe Sanh Veterans Association. Currently, Rizzuti is a writer living in Estes Park, Colorado. The Second Tour, his first novel, was begun in 1984.

Edition details

• Publisher: Terry P. Rizzuti
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692797181
• ISBN 13: 9780692797181
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 289