No Good War: An Infantry Memoir about the Vietnam War
John Herrick illuminates his real life experience of being drafted into the Vietnam War in 1968. He engaged in the usual activities of the grunt in this war: walking point, search and destroy missions, ambush patrols, and he fought in the Battle of LZ Pat, during which more than half of his company was wounded or killed.
About me
“I am still bitter about rear echelon personnel and officers. I make no apologies about that. Rear echelon had it easy and often gloated about it. Officers lacked leadership and cared only for their own careers. The infantry, the grunts, did the work and fought the war. The failure of leadership carried all the way up to the Commander in Chief.”
You can take the soldier out of the war, but you can’t get the war out of the veteran.
The countryside
On Patrol
Marking Targets
Publish Date: 15 October 2026
By University of North Texas Press
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