Muddy Jungle Rivers - Softcover

Affield, Wendell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098470230X ISBN 13: 9780984702305

Publisher: Whispering Petals Press, LLC, 2012

Synopsis

Muddy Jungle Rivers, a river assault boat Cox'n's memory journey of his war in Vietnam and return home, gives the reader a close-up look at life in the Mobile Riverine Force during 1968, the bloodiest year of the Vietnam War.

Images come alive as the story unfolds about a seven-man crew captained by a volatile, pro-war enlisted man. Told from a twenty-year-old sailor's point of view, this memoir takes the reader into frustration, rage, terror, death, betrayal, and search for redemption.

This book won the Minnesota Veteran's Voices Award in 2017.

About this title

About the Author

It's one thing to write a book; it's another to live it. Wendell Affield never knew his father. His childhood was punctuated by a volatile mother and an unpredictable stepfather. At twelve, he and his siblings were placed in foster homes, his mother committed to a mental hospital. At sixteen, he rode the rails out west and lived in hobo camps. At seventeen, he enlisted in the navy. At twenty, he was wounded in an ambush while driving a river patrol boat in Vietnam and medevaced home. This lifetime of adventure and instability are the foundation for everything he writes. After being diagnosed with PTSD in the 90s, Wendell began exploring writing as a way to process everything he had experienced. He studied the writing craft at Bemidji State University. Today, he speaks to groups across Minnesota about PTSD and leads workshops to show veterans and others how to use writing as a way to move forward from their experiences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Whispering Petals Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 098470230X
• ISBN 13: 9780984702305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354