Author:
Esola, Louise, author.
Imprint:[Temecula, California?] : Pennway Books, [2014]
Imprint2014
Descriptionxxxii, 419 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note:Self-published by the author.
Note:Prologue: Names; The Mess; I. THE WAR; 1. Black Clouds; 2. The Chiefs; 3. Chief Dad; 4. Firing on Whales; 5. American Boys; 6. All Three; 7. Sailors; 8. The Incendiary; 9. The Graying Ghost; 10. A Sinking Ship; 11. The Big Guns; 12. Presents For Charlie; 13. "Brave Men Still Die"; 14. Relief; II. DISASTER BY MOONLIGHT; 15. Sea Spirit; 16. Haunted History; 17. Ghastly; 18. Darkened Ship; 19. The Watch; 20. Juliet Seven; 21. Disaster; 22. Three Minutes; 23. Rescue; 24. Vietnam; 25. The Boys; 26. A Sea Like Glass; III. IN THE WAKE; 27. The Lost 74; 28. Flags and Fathers 29. The Inquiry; 30. The Toll; 31. "We Share in Their Grief"; 32. The Hill; 33. A Collision of Truths; 34. Key Witnesses; 35. Dereliction of Duty; 36. Goodnight Saigon; IV. THE SECOND WATCH; 37. Lest We Forget; 38. A Fighting Crew; 39. The Journalist; 40. The Mother; 41. The Pieces; Epilogue: Frances's Dream; In Memory; Endnotes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Reading Group Guide.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-410).
Note:"In the middle of a dark night off the coast of Vietnam on June 3, 1969, the USS Frank E. Evans is rammed by a ship ten times her size, sending her forward half to the bottom of the South China Sea and into oblivion. Seventy-four Americans are killed in this mysterious collision. Three brothers from a small town in Nebraska are gone, as is the son of a chief who barely survived. Only one body is ever found. The truth is confined to a footnote of the Vietnam War. Buried in obscurity even today, as the 74 names of those killed are not on the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C. In American Boys, journalist Louise Esola has uncovered and assembled a powerful rebuttal, putting the ship and her men in the time and place that was Vietnam. Groundbreaking and astonishing in scope and intimate details, American Boys is a story of heartbreak and perseverance. It's the story of a shattering injustice, of love and healing, and of a great generation of those who fought and lost yet vowed to never forget, though their nation has"--Page 4 of cover.
