Devil Dog (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781545577516)

My name is Vincent Placanico, I grew up in a small town in Massachusetts. As a young man, I succumbed to peer pressure; I became lost in a world of drug and alcohol abuse. Shortly after graduating High School, I realized that if I didn't get away, I would probably end up dead or in prison. To get away, I joined the Army, which turned out to be the best decision that I ever made. Although I still drank my share of alcohol, the Army got me away from drugs and put me on the path toward getting my life together. While stationed in Germany, I met my wife, Heidi, a German girl who already had twin boys. Shortly after getting married in 1998, we found out that Heidi was pregnant; this was the defining moment in my life. I was no longer only responsible for myself; when I became responsible for the lives of others, I learned what it meant to be a man. Now, eighteen years later, Heidi and I have Five total children, and we survive on a middle-class income. I finally decided to use my GI-Bill and learned that I enjoy writing. I found that writing poems comes naturally to me, I just sit down and write the first thing that pops into my head and I work off of it. usually within an hour or two, I have a poem. I just finished my first book, it is a short poetry book called Devil Dog, named after my Basic Training Platoon. The book is a series of poems where I ask myself and answer the question: "Who am I?"