Taken from Coming Home In Vietnam by John Ketwig (reviewer):
Coming Home in Vietnam
by Edward Tick
(Tia Chucha Press, 2021)
As I sit down to review this latest book by Edward Tick, Ph.D., I am feeling a bit anxious. Fifty-five years ago today I arrived in Vietnam, and Dr. Tick's book of poetry ignited a firestorm of memories and impressions from the year that followed.
I should also mention that a few years ago, having recently retired to rural Virginia, I was researching my second book, Vietnam Reconsidered: The War, the Times, and Why They Matter. I contacted Dr. Tick through his non-profit located in Troy, New York. He mentioned that he and his partner, Kate Dahlstedt, would soon be traveling to Fredericksburg, Virginia, and he invited me to have dinner with them. I drove for about three hours, and as I approached Fredericksburg I drove across battlefields toward a city that surrounds a visitor with carefully preserved architecture and memorabilia from our own Civil War.... Read More
