GI Diary

The two pre-eminent concerns of thinking Americans at the time - the Vietnam war and the racial crisis - converge in this diary of a draftee's two-year tour in the army, from induction day through eight months of combat in Vietnam. GI Diary is a frank and often touching record of a young soldier's private hopes and fears, his reactions to the experience of killing and the thought of being killed, and his frustrations over army life and attitudes. Many of these frustrations grow out of the f...