...And a Hard Rain Fell
A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam

A very powerful book, especially for those of us who faced the draft and Vietnam in the late sixties. Ketwig was sent to Vietnam where he faced unimaginable horrors. He rails against the army, as did most draftees, who became the "expendables" while the "lifers" stayed in their air-conditioned bunke......more

I generally shy away from such books, but a new friend of mine gave me a copy of a book he wrote in 1985. He thought it would have meaning for me. It did, but maybe not in the way he intended. ...And a Hard Rain Fell: A GI's True Story of the War in Vietnam by John Ketwig is still in print. It's a ha......more

This was actually assigned for one of my history classes and I dreaded reading it so much that I was finishing the book as I walked into my final for the class. But it was so worth it and is one of my many all time favorites.......more

Ketwig's memoir of his time abroad as a soldier in southeast Asia and his ongoing struggle to make sense of the world that birthed the conflict in Vietnam is written with a raw and excruciating honesty. You will feel his fear, his hopes, his confusion, and get a deeper, more painful first-person vie......more

For a soldier who lived in base for part of a tour and in Thailand for the other part, he sure did have a lot happen. Imagine meeting the enemy socially or suffering from depression due to a bad experience with drugs. Yes it's all here, it's sometimes well written, but at times lacks that quality th......more