Volume 6- Issue 9, September 2007
Published by Llumina Press

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE

CONTACT:    Mitchell Uscher, Director of Public Relations, Llumina Press

                        1-866-229-9244 (toll-free) or: mitch@llumina.com

DAVID L. BEDARD PUBLISHES POWERFUL NEW VIETNAM WAR MEMOIR

I REMEMBER QUAN LOI: ANNUS HORRIBILIS (THE HORRIBLE YEAR)

Bedard Calls Vietnam “The Baby Boomers’ Iraq.”

His Book Reveals the Face of War

And Its Effect on the Soul of One American Soldier.

            At a time when America is deeply divided over the War in Iraq, author David L. Bedard has written a powerful book about another controversial conflict: a Vietnam War memoir titled I Remember Quan Loi: Annus Horribilis (The Horrible Year) that will be published in September 2007 by Llumina Press.

In his book, Bedard calls Vietnam “the Baby Boomers’ Iraq” and writes of the horrors and loneliness he faced as a young Army soldier stationed in Quan Loi, an isolated hilltop outpost in the steaming jungles of Vietnam.

            Bedard was an All-American gymnast who had lived in Texas and graduated college before enlisting in the Army.  He had no idea what would happen to him when he was first sent to Vietnam.

“The Vietnam War had made an impression on my body and soul that would last a lifetime,” Bedard writes in I Remember Quan Loi.  “The war was a life-changing experience for me.”

            Bedard’s autobiography also recounts his return to the United States after Vietnam and tells of the frustrating way veterans of that war were treated.

“All of us Baby Boomers remember what it was like in the 1960s and 1970s,” he writes.  “We remember the peace marches, the student unrest and the insults hurled at Vietnam veterans by a segment of the American population. Those were tough times in our country, especially for the United States military.”

His book also reveals how Bedard realized he could not fit back into the life he knew in America before the war and recounts how he eventually came to grips with the man he had become.

            It took Dr. Bedard, a Professor Emeritus of Centenary College in Louisiana, decades to write about his experiences in Vietnam.

“I wish that I could forget it,” he writes.  “God knows that I have tried, but I cannot shake those memories both at home and abroad.  Quan Loi and America of that era are forever attached to my mind…”

In his eye-opening memoir, Bedard recreates in emotional and truthful detail an era that is looking increasingly—and disturbingly—like our own.

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Dr. David L. Bedard is available for interviews, readings, and radio and television appearances. For further information, please contact Mitchell Uscher at: 1-866-229-9244 (toll-free), or via e-mail at: mitch@llumina.com.