365天。被遗忘的越南英雄

 Ronald J. Glasser

365天。被遗忘的越南英雄

1968年9月，格拉瑟被派往日本的一家陆军医院，他作为美国陆军医疗队的一名儿科医生来到这里，照顾军官和高级政府官员的孩子。然而，该医院的主要任务是支持战争和照顾伤员。"他们都是通过日本的医院来的......直升机飞行员和RTO，前方观察员，厨师，医护人员和军士......英雄和被军事逮捕的人，吸毒者和杀人犯。"在扎马，每个月平均有六千到八千名病人接受治疗，死亡和痛苦是惊人的。士兵们以他们的行程长度来计算他们的日子--一年，或365天--他们知道，精确到每一天，他们还剩下多少时间。格拉瑟以动人的、富有人情味的口才讲述了他们的故事--生活被战争的悲剧震惊地打断了。

Ronald J. Glasser

365 Days: The Forgotten Heroes of Vietnam

Assigned to Zama, an Army hospital in Japan in September 1968, Glasser arrived as a pediatrician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps to care for the children of officers and high-ranking government officials. The hospital's main mission, however, was to support the war and care for the wounded. “They all came through the hospitals of Japan … the chopper pilots and the RTO's, the forward observers, the cooks, the medics and the sergeants... the heroes and the ones under military arrest, the drug addicts and the killers.” At Zama, an average of six to eight thousand patients were attended to per month, and the death and suffering were staggering. The soldiers counted their days by the length of their tour—one year, or 365 days—and they knew, down to the day, how much time they had left. Glasser tells their stories—of lives shockingly interrupted by the tragedies of war—with moving, humane eloquence.