Vietnam I'm Going !: Letters from a Young Wac in Vietnam to Her Mother

Linda S. Earls

Jun 2012 · Xlibris Corporation

About this ebook

Vietnam - Im Going! is the story of a young WAC assigned to Vietnam. It starts with her excitement upon receiving orders and continues with a detailed description of daily living in a combat zone. Readers will be able to follow her through the year while experiencing life as she experienced it from missing clean towels to being blasted out of bed by incoming rockets. She wrote many detailed letters to her mother and they are recorded here in their original form as they were written. She describes among other things, the war as she saw it from her office window, nights spent in the bunkers, chopper rides and the difficulties of obtaining needed items. She also describes never ending heat, the red mud and dust and the bugs that were everywhere. Readers will be caught up in this story wondering what will happen next and find it hard to stop reading. The story has a mostly positive viewpoint since she was a volunteer and so much wanted to serve her country in a combat zone.

About the author

Linda Earls joined the Women’s Army Corps in August 1964. At the end of her first enlistment she tried to re-enlist for Vietnam but was told there were no slots available. She re-enlisted for Oakland Army Base, California, as close as she could get to Vietnam. After the mandatory three months there she volunteered and received orders to report to Vietnam in May 1968. She served a year in-country. After her return to the states she had many stateside assignments and twice served in Germany. She retired in 1988 with the rank of First Sergeant.