“Written by an accomplished and highly regarded author, the warring emotions of devotion, love, grief, and raw anger that emanate from the pages of Undesirable are a poignant reminder of the collateral damage that’s suffered by the families of service members who go to war.”
Undesirable
RELEASE DAY IS HERE!
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Undesirable: The Vietnam War and a Father’s Battle for Justice is published by the University of New Mexico Press, July 7 2026.
Congratulations! I’m very excited and glad for you, and I’m looking forward to getting my copy in the mail soon.
I would love to hear from you when you’ve read it. Thank you again for your help remembering Doug at SBHS.
I’m eager to get my hands on your newest! Congratulations on this accomplishment.
Thank you, Ellen. I hope to hear from you when you’ve read it.
So exciting to see this very important book come into being! Congratulations!
Laura –
Again and again, you continue to amaze. Congratulations on another fine accomplishment.
Jes
Gracias, amiga.
I am eager to read this amazing book. Will you be doing a book signing in Bellingham soon? Looking forward to getting my copy.
Kudos, Laura!
Fran
I will be doing a VB event on Veteran’s Day, November 11. Hope to see you then.
I finally have my much anticipated copy and am devouring it for reasons you can likely guess, My Dear. Ironically, Doug landed in-country the same month and year I was exiting, June of ’69. Also ironically I was stationed in that very same sprawling Camp Radcliff, An Khe VN Central highlands, which was anything but a so called “pacified area”. However my VN experience could not possibly have been more different from his, and clearly illustrates the key role that happenstance and just plain luck can play in our lives. It also illustrates the role of key decisions made in passion and haste and regretted for a lifetime, deeply affecting countless other people close to us. I’ve just begun the book but can already tell it’s the story of a profound tragedy of great promise crashing to pieces on the rocks of military indifference, injustice, and downright stupidity. Douglas was desperately crying for help then and I truly believe in today’s army (at least pre-Trump/Hegseth) he would have gotten it, not jail time and a ruined future.
Dear Bill,
Please do email me after you finish the book I am esp. interested in yr take on An Khe and what it was like there. Also, you were older than Doug and so better grounded in the first place. I look forward to hearing from you, dear friend.
My book arrived today!
Excellent! Please do let me know when you’ve read it.