It is this spiritual dimension that makes Crossing the Line compelling reading and an important contribution to our national literature about the Vietnam War. On these spiritual questions, Spearman's voice is clear and direct, full of wisdom, and never takes the easy way out of a tough and insoluble problem. And he ends with victory. Not victory as the world sees it , but victory as only those who fought in Vietnam can understand it. Victory is moving on.
Victory is inner peace.
Satisfaction is knowing you have done not only the best you could, but all you could. This book will infinitely heighten readers' respect for the men and women who fought in the Vietnam War. The business of war is a convoluted experience for many American men and women. Thousands of men and women who have served in the United States' military forces during wartimes continue to reintegrate them selves back into American society while we, the ordinary citizens, fail to understand the full impact war has had on these former soldiers. It is a journey which is just beginning, a mere thirty-plus years after the Vietnam war.