Surviving to Tell The Tale
A Time To Forgive
A journey into hell, following the devils bidding, with no way out. A good Catholic kid’s journey from a small quiet Midwestern town into the horrid bowels of the Vietnam war and his thirty-five-year battle to forgive himself and come home, leaving booze and the devils bidding.
“An unflinching tale of overcoming childhood wounds and the aftermath of answering his country’s call to duty, Richard Vincent shares his long road to self-forgiveness. This book is both evocative and transformative. Those who have traveled a like road will find hope in these pages.”
Susan Crandall Author, The Myth of Perpetual Summer and Whistling Past the Graveyard
“A pungent example of FDR’s conception of war as ‘Young men dying and old men talking’ is provided by Richard Vincent, Surviving to Tell the Tale: A Time to Forgive. Mr. Vincent describes a U.S. program of the Vietnam war so secret that its existence could not be revealed until late in the 20th century, when President George W. Bush pulled back the curtain. Young men and old men indeed. Mr. Vincent’s memoir is full of significant insights, and he is an able navigator through the hellish fog of war…I found the book’s combat descriptions downright riveting.”
Ted Mannen, Attorney, Washington, D.C.
Meet the Author
Rick has lived in Noblesville, Indiana for the past 74 years. He has always enjoyed writing, but by the age of thirteen he fell in love with photography, and eventually became a professional photojournalist. During his photography career he had the pleasure of working on behalf of the Noblesville Daily Ledger, the US Navy, PBS, as well as WTIU while in college. These days he is back to doing what he has always enjoyed most, taking pictures of his family, reading and writing, and living a quiet life.