January 03, 2015
2-4-D, agent orange, agent orange vietnam veterans memorial, AOVVM, children of Vietnam veterans, dioxin, military exposures, military families, tcdd, veterans children, Vietnam War
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Anyone can experience what Dave went through in Vietnam in a novel authored by an Ivy League graduate and Rhodes Scholar who joined the Marines out of patriotism and went through the hell of Vietnam experienced by his – and Dave Brott’s – generation. The novel, which took 30 years in the writing is “Matterhorn” (2010). It tells it all just like it was. Inhuman heat and humidity. Foot rot and chiggers from filthy, wet clothing worn way too long. Hand to hand combat in tunnels. Often mindless command by careerist officers ordering attacks where they made no sense. Defoliation of jungles from the air with deadly poison (2-4-D, “Agent Orange”), often blown off course by errant winds. It’s all in “Matterhorn.”