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"Grady Myers was an artistic but aimless teenager in 1968, when, desperate for troops, the U.S. Army overlooked his extreme nearsightedness and transformed him into Hoss, an M-60 machine gunner. His illustrated memoir ""Boocoo Dinky Dow: My short, crazy Vietnam War"" is by turns funny and sobering. Grady recounts his military initiation at Fort Lewis, where there could be a fuzzy line between training and torture. He describes the intensity of Vietnam, where an old man carrying a bundle of sticks posed a moral dilemma and a young man would weigh the burden of his virginity against the dubious pleasures of riverbank prostitutes. Grady's explosives-happy comrades in Charlie Company sometimes posed the greatest danger. But, in a dramatic ambush, that same bunch of crazy soldiers risked their lives to save his. ""Boocoo Dinky Dow"" is how American GIs heard the French/Vietnamese phrase ""beaucoup dien cai dau"" for ""very crazy."" For more information, visit www.shortcrazyvietnam.com"

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"Praise from the Pacific Northwest Inlander: "" 'Boocoo Dinky Dow' offers readers a unique, intimate and often humorous glimpse into the absurdity and savagery of Vietnam."" Grady Myers was a professional artist, working for the Boise and Spokane newspapers and then the U.S. Forest Service. He died in 2011. Co-author Julie Titone is a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in regional, national and international publications."

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