WALKING WITH GRUNTS

Name: WALKING WITH GRUNTS
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Author: Fr. Stan Hessey
ISBN: 9781469128191

An Australian Army Chaplain with the 8th Infantry Battalion in Vietnam

by Fr. Stan Hessey

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Book Details

Language : English

Publication Date : 30/06/2011

Format : E-Book

Dimensions : 8.5x11

Page Count : 88

ISBN : 9781469128191

Format : Softcover

Dimensions : 8.5x11

Page Count : 88

ISBN : 9781453579985

About the Book

What if you’re a non-combatants in the midst of combat? How can you be a Man of God, in hell? Can you walk with the Infantryman where ever he goes, share in his training, stand with him, lie with him, duck with him, support him? Why is the soldier there? Why are you there? Is there anything helpful in the Bible that can’t be found in Playboy? The military sends its chaplains off to war with its soldiers, some of whom are conscripts, yet chaplains are volunteers. Can you speak of love and peace in the midst of bombs and bullets and booby-traps, and the stinking sight of blood and bits of yours and theirs in pain, dying and dead? Walking with Grunts is about one such Padre’s confusions, and the men of one such Battalion, at war in a place many back home thought they should not be.

About the Author

The author has been an Anglican priest for over fifty years. Twenty of those years were as an Australian Regular Army Chaplain. He served in Vietnam with the 8th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment in 1969/70. He grew up in the Sydney beachside suburb of Cronulla. He attended Hurstville Central Technical School until a football injury put him out. The prospect of a singing career gave place to a call to the priesthood, theological education at St. John’s Morpeth and St. Francis Brisbane. Ordained by the Bishop of Bathurst, Bishop Arnold Wylde led to parish appointments and took him from Sydney to Bathurst, North and Central Western Queensland. and the Hunter Valley. He was a delegate to the World Anglican Conference in Toronto, Canada, in 1963 and attached to the HQ of the Canadian Church. He studies the use of the Mass Media in North America and on return to Australia produced Radio and TV programmes. He and his wife Norma have been married for over 50 years, they have two children, Ruth and John, and live on Lake Macquarie, NSW. Although now retired he holds a Permission in Officiate in the Diocese of Newcastle and Sydney.

Customer Reviews

"On first beginning to read this book, I was somewhat put off by the inadequate proof-reading and the spelling errors (and the use of American spelling)and a rather pedestrian style.It was when the author came to describe his time in Vietnam, however, that the book came to life. He provides a valuable and vivid account of some of the experiences endured by the Australian forces in the Vietnam War and of the role of a chaplain serving with them. For this reason it should be of great interest to Vietnam veterans, and to other ex-servicemen also, and it should be read by those Australians and others who often have little understanding of the unsuccessful campaign to halt the advance of Communism in that part of the world, not least those who showed little appreciation of the service and sacrifice of the veterans when they returned. For these reasons I do recommend it. "

John Bunyan
"On first beginning to read this book, I was somewhat put off by the inadequate proof-reading and the spelling errors (and the use of American spelling)and a rather pedestrian style.It was when the author came to describe his time in Vietnam, however, that the book came to life. He provides a valuable and vivid account of some of the experiences endured by the Australian forces in the Vietnam War and of the role of a chaplain serving with them. For this reason it should be of great interest to Vietnam veterans, and to other ex-servicemen also, and it should be read by those Australians and others who often have little understanding of the unsuccessful campaign to halt the advance of Communism in that part of the world, not least those who showed little appreciation of the service and sacrifice of the veterans when they returned. For these reasons I do recommend it. "

John Bunyan
"On first beginning to read this book, I was somewhat put off by the inadequate proof-reading and the spelling errors (and the use of American spelling)and a rather pedestrian style.It was when the author came to describe his time in Vietnam, however, that the book came to life. He provides a valuable and vivid account of some of the experiences endured by the Australian forces in the Vietnam War and of the role of a chaplain serving with them. For this reason it should be of great interest to Vietnam veterans, and to other ex-servicemen also, and it should be read by those Australians and others who often have little understanding of the unsuccessful campaign to halt the advance of Communism in that part of the world, not least those who showed little appreciation of the service and sacrifice of the veterans when they returned. For these reasons I do recommend it. "

John Bunyan
"On first beginning to read this book, I was somewhat put off by the inadequate proof-reading and the spelling errors (and the use of American spelling)and a rather pedestrian style.It was when the author came to describe his time in Vietnam, however, that the book came to life. He provides a valuable and vivid account of some of the experiences endured by the Australian forces in the Vietnam War and of the role of a chaplain serving with them. For this reason it should be of great interest to Vietnam veterans, and to other ex-servicemen also, and it should be read by those Australians and others who often have little understanding of the unsuccessful campaign to halt the advance of Communism in that part of the world, not least those who showed little appreciation of the service and sacrifice of the veterans when they returned. For these reasons I do recommend it. "

John Bunyan

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