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According
to the book description of Incoming, “1969 was a momentous year for the world and especially
America. It was a year when man first set foot on the moon and in an equally amazing feat, the New York Mets won baseballs
coveted World Series. While earth shaking events were happening two hundred thousand miles from home or deep within the confines
of Shea Stadium, men of every race, education and age group were fighting and dying 12,000 miles from home in America’s
most unpopular war, Vietnam
Today, 40 years later, writer, husband and Veteran
Jack Manick reaches into his soul and resurrects the fear, tension, foreboding, laughter and terror that he and his fellow
"Band of Brothers" felt as they walked the jungles and forests of the Central Highlands of Vietnam in 1969. While
in the "Bush", he carried a pack, a medical aid bag, two knives, three grenades, a rifle, pistol and an unbreakable
commitment to save the lives of his fellow soldiers, even at the cost of his own.
The story of Jack "Doc" Manick and his fellow
soldiers is one of survival...survival in a country laden with malaria, crawling with venomous snakes, scorpions, rats, giant
centipedes and tigers and dominated by an enemy determined "Not to lose the War!" The language is as tough as the
enemy who fought against him, as unrelenting as the blistering heat of the Dry Season and as depressing as the endless mud
and mold of the Monsoon Season. Incoming invites you to lace up your jungle boots and take a walk with Jack through the jungles
and the fields of dry grass in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in 1969.”
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