{"id":14753,"date":"2024-12-06T14:05:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/?p=14753"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:51:39","slug":"whispers-of-truth-amidst-the-roars-of-the-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/?p=14753","title":{"rendered":"Whispers of Truth Amidst the Roars of the Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/gp\\\/product\\\/B0CD4PJTFT\\\/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Memoirs of a helicopter pilot\u2019s combat tour in Tay Ninh, Vietnam 1968&nbsp;<br>by John J. Gillen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>My book is a compilation of slightly over 100,000 very well-chosen words. But even a million words can\u2019t begin to describe or explain what a warrior feels every second he is in a bloody battle where his comrades-in-arms (brothers) lay in pieces (or in flames) all around him. A warrior fights on to get home to those he loves and is fighting for!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the \u2018Nam many warriors owe their lives to the medic\/ corpsman who kept them alive long enough until we helicopter pilots (and our crewmen) came back into that very hot LZ and picked them up and took them to the nearest MASH unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the story of my life leading up to Vietnam, my experience as a helicopter combat pilot in &#8216;Nam, and the journey I took afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0CD4PJTFT\/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Amazon Kindle Edition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/81khCfKKm6L._SL1500_-644x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/81khCfKKm6L._SL1500_-644x1024.jpg 644w, https:\/\/187thahc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/81khCfKKm6L._SL1500_-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/187thahc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/81khCfKKm6L._SL1500_-768x1222.jpg 768w, https:\/\/187thahc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/81khCfKKm6L._SL1500_-300x477.jpg 300w, https:\/\/187thahc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/81khCfKKm6L._SL1500_-850x1352.jpg 850w, https:\/\/187thahc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/81khCfKKm6L._SL1500_.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memoirs of a helicopter pilot\u2019s combat tour in Tay Ninh, Vietnam 1968&nbsp;by John J. 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But even a million words can\u2019t begin to describe or explain what a warrior feels every second he is in a bloody battle where his comrades-in-arms (brothers) lay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"modified_by":"Webmaster","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/187thahc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}