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Bestselling author and Vietnam veteran, Jack McLean, unveils stories of war, return, and recovery in his engrossing memoirs that trace his path from the horrors of war through his decades-long battles with PTSD and Agent Orange in a transforming America.
Jack McLean is a Vietnam veteran, historian, and best-selling author. After serving from 1966 to 1968 in the United States Marine Corps, Jack became the first Vietnam veteran admitted to Harvard University.
Decades later, after years of grappling with the mental torment of PTSD and the physical repercussions of his exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange, Jack began to reconnect with his fellow Marines and thus launched a powerful journey towards recovery.
LOON: A Marine Story and FOUND: A Veteran Story are insightfully powerful and inspiring memoirs that recount Jack’s service in Vietnam and personal battles on the home front.
The veteran memoirs, “LOON: A Marine Story” and “FOUND: A Veteran Story” offer the first hand account of a Marine from the battlefields in Vietnam, through his return and recovery.
LOON: A Marine Story is an honest, richly textured, and beautifully written veteran’s memoir about an infantry Marine and his comrades during the height of the Vietnam War. It takes readers from Andover’s privileged campus, to the infamous Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, to the battle at Landing Zone Loon in the rugged hills along Vietnam’s Laotian border.
During that period, McLean is transformed from a sheltered boy into a Marine, and ultimately into one of a handful of survivors of a horrific three-day assault during some of the heaviest fighting in the Vietnam War. LOON neither glorifies nor mystifies. It simply tells a compelling story about courage, honor, and sacrifice.
LOON: A Marine Story is an honest, richly textured, and beautifully written veteran’s memoir about an infantry Marine and his comrades during the height of the Vietnam War. It takes readers from Andover’s privileged campus, to the infamous Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, to the battle at Landing Zone Loon in the rugged hills along Vietnam’s Laotian border.
During that period, McLean is transformed from a sheltered boy into a Marine, and ultimately into one of a handful of survivors of a horrific three-day assault during some of the heaviest fighting in the Vietnam War. LOON neither glorifies nor mystifies. It simply tells a compelling story about courage, honor, and sacrifice.
FOUND: A Veteran Story is an emotional memoir about the decades-long post traumatic rehabilitation of U.S. Marine Corps veteran Jack McLean. McLean shares his road to recovery through the love and support of his former brothers-in-arms, the reconciliation of the fractured family of a fallen buddy, and the medical and psychological support of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
FOUND is a piercingly honest chronicle of an infantry Marine who finds his way through the scars of post-traumatic stress and the enervating impact of his exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange during a time when Americans were ambivalent to the challenges faced by returning Vietnam veterans.
FOUND: A Veteran Story is an emotional memoir about the decades-long post traumatic rehabilitation of U.S. Marine Corps veteran Jack McLean. McLean shares his road to recovery through the love and support of his former brothers-in-arms, the reconciliation of the fractured family of a fallen buddy, and the medical and psychological support of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
FOUND is a piercingly honest chronicle of an infantry Marine who finds his way through the scars of post-traumatic stress and the enervating impact of his exposure to the defoliant Agent Orange during a time when Americans were ambivalent to the challenges faced by returning Vietnam veterans.
Experience Jack’s personal photographs from the Vietnam War, and learn more about Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, 3rd Marine Division.
