Sunbury Press Books Show -- Lawrence Knorr w/Charles Kniffen

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Sunbury Press Books Show

Lawrence Knorr hosts author and Vietnam veteran Charles Kniffen whose Fifty Years in a Foxhole has been released. 

About the Book:

Fifty Years in a Foxhole is an episodic account of the author's seven months in combat in Vietnam. He and his platoon were in several major engagements including the Battle of the Hills and Operation Utah. The main focus of these operations are the lives of the marines and attrition through action and "friendly fire" as they endure these pointless dangers. 

Each chapter contains two parts, and the second part is about the author's fifty years of living with undiagnosed PTSD. He struggled to find a way to live in the thrall of the existential elan he developed in combat while insisting that this edgy verve could be enjoyed without the constant threat of fear, violence, and death. It explores PTSD from a new perspective, more as a shared betrayal with many other people in our society.

Charles Kniffen is a combat wounded veteran of the Vietnam war.