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...DAYS by Ronald J. Glasser, M.D. 292 pages. Braziller...
...When you are describing a disaster," Ronald Glasser explains, "you talk to the victims." Glasser is a young Minneapolis pediatrician who was drafted in 1968 and assigned to the Army hospital at Camp Zama, Japan. His job there was to care for the children of military families. But his attention was soon absorbed by the hospital's more specific mission-mending the thousands of shattered soldiers who were flown in from battle in Viet Nam. Glasser began listening to the wounded in his off hours, then writing their stories down. Though his previous literary experience was limited to "fiddling...
...Glasser's intention was not to get at the political truth of Viet Nam but to get at the particular, personal experiences of some of the Americans who fought there. He succeeded almost too well. As in all fictionalized journalism, the greater the author's skill at re-creating the minute details the more the reader wonders exactly how the writer got it all down so precisely. Glasser exhaustively rechecked details with his witnesses. As he explained recently: "I'd asked, How hot was it? Is this how it happened, how it looked?" Often the wounded demanded...
Lost Legs. Glasser's chronicles begin at Zama, where the doctors were surrounded by adolescents whose bodies, for no purpose that they could fathom, had been suddenly mutilated. "They were worried," Glasser observed, "not about survival, but about how they would explain away their lost legs. Would they embarrass their families? Could they go to the beach and would their scars darken in the sun and offend the girls. Above all, and underlining all their cares, would anybody love them when they got back...
SYLVIA KUSHEL Manhattan Sir: Getting rid of "Jewish Power" in the schools of New York will solve but one of poor John's ten plagues. Who will the other nine scapegoats be, pray? C. M. GLASSER Miami Beach Sir: Your gloom about New York reminds me of the Londoners who thought it was the end when the Hilton appeared on the Hyde Park skyline...