{"product_id":"vietnam-remembered-a-special-forces-journey-9781971072173","title":"Vietnam Remembered: A Special Forces Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is war really like-and what remains when the fighting is over?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn February 1966, Andrew Johnson enlisted in the U.S. Army searching for an answer. He pursued airborne wings, earned the coveted Green Beret, and entered Vietnam with U.S. Army Special Forces shortly before the Tet Offensive transformed the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVietnam Remembered: A Special Forces Journey\u003c\/em\u003e is Johnson's deeply personal account of combat, brotherhood, survival, and the memories that followed him home. Serving among the Montagnard people, Johnson experienced a world far removed from conventional military life: isolated villages, monsoon rains, oppressive heat, ambushes, helicopter assaults, constant vigilance, and the ever-present possibility of death. He witnessed courage and brutality, loyalty and hatred, camaraderie and loss-all while confronting the complicated realities of a war that rarely fit neatly into official accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is not a conventional military history. It is one soldier's remembrance of what he saw, believed, feared, questioned, and carried with him. Decades later, memories of fallen friends, difficult choices, youthful assumptions, and moments of extraordinary danger remain part of an unfinished reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnson's story extends beyond Vietnam. After returning home, he served in the Peace Corps and spent sixteen years in civilian life before returning to military service at age forty. He subsequently served twenty years in the Army Reserve, with assignments taking him to Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Colombia, and Iraq and Qatar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnvarnished and reflective, \u003cem\u003eVietnam Remembered\u003c\/em\u003e explores not only what happens to a soldier at war but what happens within him afterward. Beneath the recollections of Special Forces operations and life in Vietnam lies a larger examination of honor, mortality, faith, memory, and accountability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWar eventually becomes history. For those who lived it, however, memory remains-and with memory comes the question of what a life, and the choices made within it, ultimately mean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis deliberately avoids presenting Johnson's recollections as definitive historical fact, which is especially important given the preface's explicit statement that the book is a remembrance rather than a scholarly or comprehensive military history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Orison Publishers, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781971072173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Andrew Johnson,John Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514358259893,"sku":"9781971072173","price":18.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781971072173.jpg?v=1791903796","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/vietnam-remembered-a-special-forces-journey-9781971072173","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}