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The Other Vietnam War is a powerful autobiographical account of service in Vietnam and the enduring, often invisible conflict that follows it home. Moving beyond battlefield action and historical summary, this memoir explores the private war carried within-one shaped by memory, moral conflict, and the lasting psychological impact of combat. Drawing on firsthand experience, the author recounts life during the Vietnam War with clarity and restraint, capturing both the immediacy of service and the long shadow it casts over everything that comes after. Combat is only one part of the story. Equally present are fear, loyalty, duty, and the ethical uncertainties faced by those ordered into situations where right and wrong are rarely clear. The narrative does not seek to dramatize war, but to reveal its cumulative weight and the quiet ways it reshapes a life. The memoir also confronts the difficult return home. Reintegration proves elusive in a society eager to distance itself from the war and those who fought it. Silence, unresolved guilt, and unspoken grief linger, affecting relationships, identity, and faith in institutions once trusted. The author gives voice not only to personal experience, but to a broader generation of veterans whose struggles often remained unseen and unacknowledged. Written with technical precision and emotional honesty, The Other Vietnam War examines trauma without sentimentality and memory without nostalgia. It is a meditation on responsibility, survival, and the cost of carrying war forward into civilian life. The book acknowledges the complexity of service-honoring commitment and sacrifice while refusing to simplify the consequences. At its core, this autobiography is about aftermath: how war alters a person long after the fighting ends, how the past intrudes upon the present, and how meaning is sought in the wake of experiences that resist resolution. Thoughtful, candid, and deeply human, The Other Vietnam War will resonate with readers of military memoir, Vietnam War history, and autobiographies that confront trauma, conscience, and the enduring impact of war.

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""Strap in -- war from a chopper pilot's point of view!"" In 1971, I was a college kid trying to pick a major so I could graduate. Marc Cullison was first lieutenant flying helicopters over the dense and dangerous jungles of Vietnam. The Other Vietnam brings to the reader the smells, sounds and dangers of that life-changing experience. It's the details that matter: the MPCs, the hooch girls, rats in bed, the missions and the dangers of war. This is a well-told story of coming of age in the worst possible place to do it. - Michael Stephen Daigle, Author of the Frank Nagler Mystery Series ""An incredibly honest book."" I could identify with many of his thoughts and experiences. He treated them honestly and allowed the reader into his mind and his soul. His is an incredibly honest book that I highly recommend! - Jack S., Amazon Reader ""A Must Read!"" It is refreshing to read an account that holds nothing back and does not sugar coat or sanitize. Mr. Cullison tells it like it is. This veteran is very grateful! - Linda Whaley, U.S. Veteran ""This truly is the other Vietnam War."" This is one of the best Nam books that I've read! It as if Marc was putting my thoughts down. I was not a pilot, but he hit every other issue square, during, before and after the war. Language, thoughts and action were all right there. - Amazon Reader

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Marc Cullison is a baby-boomer who grew up in an era when education was everything and duty to country was a responsibility. After receiving a bachelor's degree in architectural engineering at Oklahoma State University, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in theUnited States Army Reserve Corps of Engineers through the ROTC program. During his four-year tour of duty, he served as helicopter pilot with the 129th Assault Helicopter Company in II Corps, Vietnam, in 1971. He returned from overseas to an assignment as a military assistantto the resident engineer at Kaw Dam and Reservoir near Ponca City, Oklahoma, where he met the woman he would marry there. After two years in Ponca City he was honorably discharged and returned to Oklahoma State where he received a master's degree in architectural engineering and honed his technical skills as a professional structural engineer. Then into quality control at a manufacturing plant which ledhim into computer programming. His most recent career was a math and science instructor at Connors State College in Warner and Muskogee, Oklahoma, from which he retired in 2014. He lives with his wife in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

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