Exit Wounds

A Vietnam Elegy

By: Lanny Hunter

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Exit Wounds: A Vietnam Elegy is an intimate, boots-on-the-ground memoir that chronicles one captain’s brutal experience in the Vietnam War.

On October 19, 1965, American Special Forces in Vietnam came under attack at their camp at Plei Me. This marked the first major confrontation between the North Vietnamese and US armies during the war. Throughout six days of constant hostile fire, Captain Lanny Hunter sorted the seriously wounded from the dead and saved those comrades-in-arms he could. For his actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

In Exit Wounds, Hunter recalls his tour in the central highlands of Vietnam in 1965/66 at the bloody interface of medicine and combat. Paralleling this story is his return in 1997 to find and help his Montagnard interpreter, Y-Kre Mlo, after ten years in a communist reeducation camp. This pilgrimage takes Hunter back to old haunts and battlegrounds—and to a war now seen through a very different lens.

Peopled with those who were dedicated, courageous, gentle, proud, profane, and a little mad, this book explores what happens when leaders place personal ambition over honor, and America’s “moral high ground” is soaked with the blood of its young men and women. So much more than a memoir, Exit Wounds is a poetic and profound story that reflects on the human condition, duty, honor, faithfulness, and how the scars remain long after the war is over.

©2023 Lanny Hunter (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

Unique, compelling and well rounded

Terrific pros, style, vocabulary and cadence. Woven between war and post war eloquently. Beautiful ending.

Excellent

For those of us who spent time in the Republic of South Vietnam the book brought back many memories. I was hoping for a happy outcome but as with so many things in Nam, was disappointed. The last couple chapters we too philosophical but his discussion of his reunion with buddies was great. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone curious about the war at the grunt level and what the country has become after 1975.

Enlightening

an interesring read, as I learned many new facts...the Vietnam War may have been axoided.

the most in-depth view not your ordinary Vietnam book

after hundreds of books that I have read and listen to over the years this is one of the most in-depth books it really touches one's heart on a spiritual level a warrior level and the facts of American medic in Vietnam every other chapter is his visit back in '90s and his experience in the '60s very well done one of my only reviews I have bothered to leave