Well Done, Those Men: memoirs of a Vietnam veteran

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It is a book that is humorous in parts and most of all profoundly moving. A real learning curve for me. Jul 28, Michelle Perry rated it really liked it. A very valuable story that explains the journey of an Aussie soldier during Vietnam - and most importantly what happened at home.

I feel I learnt so much. I listened to the Audio book and couldn't stop. Written by an amazing man that has been to hell and back. The book doesn't focus a lot on the war, but rather the effect it had on him and the population and what Barry Heard endured when he tried to return to civilisation. Thoroughly recommend this book. My husband also enjoyed it and hes not a reader.

Dec 04, Kerri-anne Mesner rated it it was amazing. For a book written by a PTSD riddle war survivor about their journey, this is a great first insight in what it was like for those that served when they first returned home to the battles with PTSD and a system that struggles to acknowledge the damage done by sending men to war and not providing appropriate care upon their return.

Jan 28, Rhiannon Otto rated it it was amazing. Jan 23, Ella Callaghan rated it really liked it. Jul 16, Becc rated it it was amazing. Funny, devestating and heartwarming all at once. May 06, SHR rated it it was amazing Shelves: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I found this a very affecting book.

It tells the first-hand story of a Vietnam Vet, from his conscription into the army, through his training, his time in Vietnam, his return to Australia and finally his break-down and recovery of sorts. It is a heart breaking story, partly because of the futility of the war, partly because of the way Vietnam vets were treated by society and partly due to the lack of assistance given to the returning soldiers.

Heard describes the mateship that developed amongst t I found this a very affecting book. Heard describes the mateship that developed amongst the men in a platoon and the way they interact with each other; relying on each others presence but only ever expressing any real emotion while drunk; the army supplied endless amounts of beer, which the servicemen used to make themselves numb. He also talks of how on their return to Australia many men were only comfortable in each others company, as they understood each other without the need for words.

Anger seemed to be the only emotion easily vented. On their return to Australia, according to Heard and his platoon buddies, men either became workaholics or alcoholics — Heard was the former. He suffered hair loss, stomach cramps, flashbacks and black dreams for years and every anniversary of an ill-fated mission in which his company suffered death and serious injury he had a mini-break down — his behaviour became erratic, he had panic attacks and chest pains — all the while denying anything was wrong.

Most of the men were 21 at the time and not emotionally prepared for what happened to them — who would be? So many lives destroyed; some in the emotional aftermath and some through suicide or alcoholism; it is confronting to read but worthwhile, in part because it reminded me how lucky my generation is.

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The last few chapters of the book had me in tears, the emotion is restrained through the writing but the way in which events and relationships are described makes the emotional content clear. But having read the account, I understand why it is what it is to them. Apparently many vets are the same and have handed the book to relatives saying read this, it is my story too.

May 06, Steve Woods rated it it was amazing Shelves: As a Vietnam veteran, this book gave expression to a lot of the confusion and pain that was kind of swirling away right down inside. In some ways it really focussed my attention, not only on what was happening to me but what was happeneing to other vets I had seen in hospitals over a period of many years, coping with the same problems. It shook me into realising that in a very real sense I was beyond the help of those who were trying to helpme and often the places I ended up in just helped cemen As a Vietnam veteran, this book gave expression to a lot of the confusion and pain that was kind of swirling away right down inside.

It shook me into realising that in a very real sense I was beyond the help of those who were trying to helpme and often the places I ended up in just helped cement the difficulties into place. I needed to take responsibility for my physical, mental and spiritual condition now, not for the idiocies of our political masters 40 years ago. My own journey has taken me into Buddhist thinking and practice, I can honestly say that this path has done for me what no psychiatrist, no pill, no counselor was ever able to do.

It has begun to unravel that locked in sense of myself as "my story" which of course included all the evnts I participated in while serving as a soldier in Vietnam in and in Cambodia and Laos in It isn't personal any longer, it is just a series of events that happened. While I still have nightmares they lack the terrible intensity they once had. They are no longer capable of crippling me for days and exhausting my very limited supply of compassion for myself and others as they used to. There is a way out of the nightmare, this path has been my guide and I say to any veteran who still suffer, what the Buddha said to us all "Come and see, for yourself.

I first read it in when the current part of my journey had just begun. The review I wrote then is above. I was as touched by this account this time as I was the last. The difference is that the wounds are no longer so raw. My practice continues as does the unraveling of the pain. If this account is one man's it also belongs to all who served there in one way or another. The Vietnam experience still reaches into the present in the lives of those who served and in a much wider circle.

There are the families, wives and children, parents, siblings and lovers, they all carry their own version of the wounds. They too are part of that section of a generation that was psychologically crippled by the deceit, the futility and the barbarity of that war. Though they live as evidence of what evil ego driven, self righteous politicians can wreak, nothing has been learned. Vietnam veterans everywhere, must weep as I do when I see the same idiocy being perpetrated today and the same blithe political faces rallying the masses around the flag with the fable of Anzac in ways that neither we nor our forefathers would willingly countenance.

To top it off they quietly strip those who serve today of the support that has saved so many of our generation, if there is everlasting shame it has a permanent home hanging over Parliament House in Canberra Jun 05, Paul Taylor rated it it was amazing. A very well written and moving book that highlights the mental battles faced by Vietnam Veterans both during the war and most importantly, after the war when they were treated like criminals and lepers by our politicions and protesters alike. Being the son of a veteran i have heard many "war stories" told to me by my dad, but they were never with the raw emotion described in this novel.

It made me instantly love my Dad even more and appreciate the horrors all of our men and women experience duri A very well written and moving book that highlights the mental battles faced by Vietnam Veterans both during the war and most importantly, after the war when they were treated like criminals and lepers by our politicions and protesters alike.

It made me instantly love my Dad even more and appreciate the horrors all of our men and women experience during war times. The protesters who took their political and anti-war ideology out on soldiers should be ashamed of themselves - stick to protesting against the politicions that send our people to war, not the soldiers who are forced to go. The author recounts how the only thing keeping him and his mates sane were letters from home only to have that taken away from them when dock workers stopped the letters from getting accross to our boys in protest again the war.

For anyone that is the son or daughter of a Vietnam Veteran - I cant stress how important it is for you to read this book, it will shine a light on your Father and might help you to understand the way he has acted and behaved the way he has ever since he came back Feb 01, Brad Lang rated it it was amazing.

Well done Barry Heard. Well done for having the courage to put pen to paper, well done for writing with a level of honesty not always seen in autobiographies and well done for making the decision to turn the writing into a book. It starts with a quick fire analysis of the first twenty years of his life as he recounts the simply joys of being a farm hand, living out in country Victoria and enjoying a simple life.

The story takes a dramatic tur Well done Barry Heard. The story takes a dramatic turn when his number was drawn out of the barrel and he was on his way to Vietnam. The fact that Heard only started writing as a way of letting go of his thoughts, and had no previous publishing experience makes the book what it is. It describes the horrors of war better than anything I have read and I am not even talking about the chapters set in Vietnam. It is what happens after his return that really reflects how nasty war can be. I have never quite understood the horrors of a nervous breakdown until I read this book, now it is something I have firmly entrenched in my mind, more than anything else written.

Mar 28, Jacob rated it really liked it. It's tough to write a review about something like veterans returning from Vietnam, because it's just a rather tough subject to handle, especially if you are one of said veterans. Barry Heard was diagnosed with PTSD after serving Australia in the Vietnam war, and as part of his recovery he felt that if he could write about his past, then he might be able to get over more of his PTSD.