Flight of the Pegasus

About the Book

In 1965 Victor Moore, an impoverished black teenager from a rural town in Illinois, enlisted in the United States Army at the age of seventeen. At eighteen he was ferried off to a far and distant land called Southeast Asia. There he experienced the culture shock, the opium dens and struggled with the demons from within. He helped fight an enemy that was not much different from himself, except the VC's mission was clearly define. Victor was alienated and purged into the cold realities of war. While he was lost, he found a friend in the great white winged Pegasus who helped him salvage his sanity in a time of chaos and mayhem called Vietnam. He returned to "the world" in 1968 to a land ripped by civil unrest and torn by the ugly legacy of slavery and the assassination of a great America Hero.

About the Author

Dorian Morrison was born in the late forties in Southern Illinois. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the military shortly before his seventeenth birthday. At eighteen he began serving two tours of duty in Vietnam. He was awarded the Vietnam Champaign Medal, The National Defense Medal and two Overseas Bars. After being discharged under honorable conditions in nineteen sixty-eight, he returned home to the turbulent Civil Rights Movement. The story, Flight of The Pegasus, is based on true life events which the writer experienced while growing up in rural Illinois and serving in the United States Army. Presently the author lives in the Midwest with his wife of twenty-six years. He holds a degree in Liberal Arts and Science and a degree in Human Services.