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Henry James Barthochowski (Cow for short) is a Wisconsin farm boy transported to Vietnam in 1967 as a Navy Seabee. Cow is a listener, observer and anything but a cheerleader for military decorum. The thirty-three linked stories are fictional snapshots of a time and place that changed minds and lives by the serious business of war and the monkey business that goes with it. For the most part, these stories reflect the lighter side of the war effort including the peculiarities of going...
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Henry James Barthochowski (Cow for short) is a Wisconsin farm boy transported to Vietnam in 1967 as a Navy Seabee. Cow is a listener, observer and anything but a cheerleader for military decorum. The thirty-three linked stories are fictional snapshots of a time and place that changed minds and lives by the serious business of war and the monkey business that goes with it. For the most part, these stories reflect the lighter side of the war effort including the peculiarities of going to war and the idiosyncrasies of belonging somewhere, anywhere, other than where they were.