Rizzuti has pissed me off with his book.  He has brought back memories.  Although I have not had as bad a war experiences as he had I had enough to know what he is feeling and remembering.  And what he cannot get over.  Whether you held someone while he died one hundred times or once, it is always the same. There is no difference.  Dead is dead.  Holding them, looking into their eyes, hearing their final words...or noises as the case may be...it is something you carry forever; it is the same.  Even if you buried the memories, every now and again something comes along that uncovers the grave.  Then the bones in the closet rattle and you open the door to the past.  The memories echo and you hear it all again.  Yes, Rizzuti pissed me off and in the final analysis there may be no better way to evaluate his book than to say that.

Michael D. "Moon" Mullins, author of "Vietnam in Verse, poetry for beer drinkers." "ViV" won the Gold Medal for poetry, 2007, from the Military Writers Society of America. The book is available on line from amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, books-a-million.com and iUniverse.com.
It is available as an audio-book from the author. Please contact me at this e-mail address; mullins.m.1.comcast.net or via land mail at POB 456 Windfall, In. 46076.
Vietnam Veteran, Delta 3/7, 199th Light Infantry, '68-'69.
Vice President of the Military Writers Society of America