{"product_id":"boocoo-dinky-dow-julie-a-titone-9781467955683","title":"Boocoo Dinky Dow: My short, crazy Vietnam War","description":"Grady Myers was an artistic but aimless teenager in 1968, when, desperate for troops, the U.S. Army overlooked his extreme nearsightedness and transformed him into Hoss, an M-60 machine gunner. His illustrated memoir \"Boocoo Dinky Dow: My short, crazy Vietnam War\" is by turns funny and sobering. Grady recounts his military initiation at Fort Lewis, where there could be a fuzzy line between training and torture. He describes the intensity of Vietnam, where an old man carrying a bundle of sticks posed a moral dilemma and a young man would weigh the burden of his virginity against the dubious pleasures of riverbank prostitutes. Grady's explosives-happy comrades in Charlie Company sometimes posed the greatest danger. But, in a dramatic ambush, that same bunch of crazy soldiers risked their lives to save his. \"Boocoo Dinky Dow\" is how American GIs heard the French\/Vietnamese phrase \"beaucoup dien cai dau\" for \"very crazy.\" For more information, visit www.shortcrazyvietnam.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julie A. Titone, Grady C. Myers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 146795568X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781467955683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Julie A. Titone","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987741016319,"sku":"9781467955683","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c397f16e-2bf0-49c2-a90e-f6036d47902a.jpg?v=1683290711","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/boocoo-dinky-dow-julie-a-titone-9781467955683","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}