Source: Amazon.com
Date: Jan. 18, 2010


Exquisite, poetic stories

By Alice M. Dinizo "J.B. DiNizo" (Toms River, New Jersey)

Dick Stanley's well-written book of short stories, "Leaving the Alamo", mingle the thoughts and memories of Vietnam War veterans with their Texas homeland. The main characters of each story deal thoughtfully with their war memories, their comrades in arms, either living,missing in action,killed in the war or dying afterwards, and their own adjustments to life afterwards in a poignant way that will penetrate to the reader's soul. Mr. Stanley recounts so very well, often with humor and always with great dialogue, the experience of those who went to fight and now are old, aching, full of recollections, resentful sometimes of how they and their fellow soldiers were treated. A good solid addition to libraries' books on the Vietnam War and a must own, must read for followers of this tragic period in our history.