Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
CopperSun265 recounts the life-long journey of a 70-year-old Navy Special Operations veteran. Joe Tyler's life was indelibly marked by the missions he carried out in North Vietnam in 1967 & '68. While he survived two combat tours as the point man of an elite, covert "Snatch and Grab" team, since coming home fifty years ago, the brutality and secrecy of his missions have combined to present an even more relentless enemy than he faced in combat: Post Traumatic Stress.My novel is presented to help everyone a large variety of people to understand how traumatic pressures change an otherwise normal human being - in the case, CopperSun lead character developing from a youngster growing up in a small blue-collar, steel-mill town in the 1950's to become a world-class warrior in the Vietnam War, then being sent home after the accidental killing of a small child causes him to quit functioning.