Review: Unedited Letters Shared
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2013
First of all, Thank you Damon, for your service, for your sacrifice and for your sharing of your letters.  It takes guts to do all three.I downloaded this book because I wanted to relive the exchange of letters that I had during that same time with an older cousin who was in country at the time.  For nearly two years we exchanged letters weekly.  I would rush home from school to check the mail hoping to find one of those SE Asia envelops from my Cousin.Damon's letters capture some similar feelings and stories and narration of a day to day life in the US Army serving in Vietnam.  For those letters and parts of letters relating to that I give a high rating.  Unfortunately I got bogged down with some of the personal passages in the letters to his wife.  In the first third of the book I was able to deal with it ok, but as I continued, that portion of the letters seemed to slow up the interest for me and caused me to only issue 3 stars.  Again remember my reason for choosing this books was to read about in country, day to day experiences, concerns and thoughts of the day, similar to those I received from my cousin.  Perhaps others who did not have a similar experience (and expectation) to mine may find these letters more interesting in whole and would rate it higher. And the authors intent was fine, just did not match my interest. Had these letters been subject to some editing, my rating would have climbed to a 5.I have downloaded a few other "letters home" books which were edited, cutting out some of the more personal and random thoughts which I rate higher from my point of view and found a more satisfying read.