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the blades carry me................To those who came home, those who didn't, and those who waited.

JAMES WEATHERILL SERVED AS AN ARMY HELICOPTER PILOT IN VIETNAM FROM NOVEMBER 1967 TO NOVEMBER 1968. HIS MEMOIR, THE BLADES CARRY ME: INSIDE THE HELICOPTER WAR IN VIETNAM, TAKES THE READER INTO THE CH-47 CHINOOK HELICOPTER COCKPIT AND THE DAILY LIFE OF A 22-YEAR-OLD PILOT.

THE YOUNG MAN MUST RECONCILE HIS IDEALS OF PATRIOTISM, COURAGE, AND HONOR WITH THE REALITY AND POLITICS OF A WAR WHERE VICTORY IS MEASURED BY BODY-COUNT RATIOS INSTEAD OF TERRITORY GAINED OR LOST. WHEN IT’S TIME TO GO HOME, HE REALIZES HE’LL LEAVE MORE THAN WAR BEHIND.

ON THE HOME FRONT, THE PILOT’S WIFE, ANNIE, PROVIDES A COUNTERPOINT AS A PREGNANT COLLEGE SENIOR AND MILITARY SPOUSE DURING A CONTROVERSIAL WAR. WITH LETTERS AND TAPE RECORDINGS THEIR SOLE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION, HOW WILL THEY GROW UP WITHOUT GROWING APART?

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when paths cross ......................."Every new beginning is some other beginning's end." -Seneca the elder

LOVE, HEROISM, INTRIGUE, REVENGE, HEARTBREAK, BETRAYAL … AND A FAITHFUL DOG.

IT’S 1973, A TIME WITHOUT CELL PHONES, INTERNET, OR MICROWAVE OVENS. THE VIETNAM WAR SHUTS DOWN, AND YOUNG VETERANS CARRY HOME A PERSONAL WAR INSIDE.

THE STORY TAKES PLACE IN A SMALL LOGGING TOWN NESTLED IN THE FOOTHILLS OF A VAST MOUNTAIN FOREST IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. A VIETNAM VETERAN PILOT ARRIVES FOR A SHORT-TERM ASSIGNMENT HAULING LOGS BY HELICOPTER. IN THE COCKPIT, THE MAN SEEKS REFUGE FROM HIS HOMELAND’S HOSTILITY AND HIS OWN NIGHTMARES.

HE CROSSES PATHS AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH A LOCAL WOMAN, AN ASSAULT SURVIVOR. THEY COME FACE-TO-FACE WITH HER PAST WHEN HER ASSAILANT TRACKS HER DOWN AND COMES FOR THEM BOTH. AS EACH ONE’S PAST THREATENS THEIR RELATIONSHIP, DO THEY DARE TO DREAM OF A FUTURE TOGETHER?

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