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A
Year in the Belly of the Tiger by Bruce Waldron
A Fictional
Diary of a U.S. Soldier in the Vietnam War
From Staff Reports, The Frederick News-Post
Bruce
Waldron lives and writes at his home near Frederick. He spent
a year as a surveyor in Pleiku, in South Vietnam, during the
Vietnam War.
That experience
served as the background for "A Year in the Belly of
the Tiger," a fictional account of an American soldier's
experience in Vietnam. The story is fiction, he said. The
character is from a small town in Oklahoma, while Mr. Waldron
grew up in
Rockville.
The story
is written in diary fashion. At each heading, the main character
listed the number of days remaining in Vietnam. The story
is a rather graphic tale of a soldier's experiences during
that year.
"For
most participants the one-year tour could best be described
as 365 long days of boredom punctuated with the intermittent
foray
into long hours of horror," Mr. Waldron wrote about his
book. Mr. Waldron now works as a planner with the Carroll
County
government. He spent three years in the Army, and studied
civil engineering technology and business administration at
Daytona Beach
Community College in Florida.
He writes
as a hobby, and is a member of the Independent Writer's Association.
He also attends the Southeastern Writers Association of Georgia's
annual workshop each June at St. Simon's Island.
He writes
on a strict schedule of three evenings a week and early on
Saturday and Sunday mornings. He carries a journal to record
daily observations, bits of interesting dialogue, newspaper
clippings and "anything bizarre.
He has
published one collection of short stories, "Belly Up
to the Yellow Line," and self-published a collection
of poetry and
photography, "Flying Through Life."
The book
is being published by AmErica House, and is available on-line
from Publishamerica.com, or from Borders Books and Music in
Frederick, The Whistlestop Book Store in Mount Airy and Locust
Books in Westminster.
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