Now I Lay Me Down to Weep: In the Valleys of My Mind, by Richard (Doc) Kraft

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A young homeless teenager struggles to find his way in life while facing the reputations of criminal and abusive relatives. With no healthy experiences to go by, he finds his way to a home in the U.S. Navy. He paths his life with purpose in the medical field as a corpsman. His struggles take him to Vietnam with the U.S. Marine Corps as a combat medic and addresses his pain and misery of wounded and dying marines with his combat poetry. His constant fear of not being able to do enough to aid the wounded are evident in both his story and in real life. His grip with fear and death, expressed in prose, have been his personal return from the hell of post traumatic stress. He gives no glorification for war and takes his God serious without reservation. He claims his actions to be no different in combat then all corpsmen so charged with tending the wounded and giving last rites to the marines who couldn't be saved. As written in one of his poems; he states that his scars from wounds are a reminder that what happened was real. His life story is the vehicle for his prose.

Now I Lay Me Down to Weep: In the Valleys of My Mind, by Richard (Doc) Kraft

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3259651 in Books
• Published on: 2015-03-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.00" h x .50" w x 6.00" l, .67 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

Now I Lay Me Down to Weep: In the Valleys of My Mind, by Richard (Doc) Kraft

About the Author Richard "Doc" Kraft served twenty-two years of active duty in the Navy and eight years in the Fleet Reserves He served multiple deployments to Okinawa, Vietnam, Cuba, Hawaii and several others. He is a decorated war veteran, awarded two Purple Hearts, the Bronze Star, Presidential Unit Citations, as well as Navy and Marine Corps Commendations. He retired a Navy Chief Corpsman, and served 22 years with the U.S. Postal Service.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Now I Lay Me Down To Weep By J. Byrnes Very real and honest. Made me think. What can a young man do when he has had such a poor childhood? Going into the military to find family, friends, shelter, a purpose in life, and even a livelihood makes sense. From what I have gathered, this writer strove for making things better. What more can any of us do?A good read. “Weeping” sad, yet hopeful of a better future.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Posted in VVA Veteran Books in Review II August 25, 2015 By Amazon Customer Kraft’s combat life began as a child abused by a merciless stepfather. Robbed of a boyhood, Kraft ran away from home at fifteen and worked his way through high school. In 1957, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Navy and went on to serve twenty-two years on active duty. Introspection and compassion are Kraft’s strongest attributes—and also his most powerful enemies. He clearly expresses the fear he felt about combat and his nagging concern over providing proper care for the wounded and dying. The book is a collection of Doc Kraft’s prose and poetry. The poems parallel and re-emphasize the messages in the prose stories. At times, the prose takes on its own cadence and grows more emotion-laden than the accompanying poems. This style prevails in the Prologue in which Kraft labels his memoir as “a book of fiction” and delivers a grim lesson: “War is without morals, regardless of who is holding the weapon. The dying aspect is all that’s left for clarification. There can be no glory in dying for family and there can be no glory in dying for a war.” Wounded twice in Vietnam, Kraft developed a front-line knowledge of death with the 2nd Battalion of the 9th Marines in Leatherneck Square. In wrapping up his Vietnam War experience, Kraft presents one-page explanations of field gear, monsoons, sanitation, alcohol, combat patrols, helicopters, doctors, chaplains, and others. Although much of this can be found in many Vietnam War novels, memoirs, and history books, Kraft includes several short biographies that qualify as priceless reading. Kraft—a member of Vietnam Veterans of America—retired from the Navy in 1979. He then endured bouts with leukemia (from Agent Orange exposure) and PTSD. The latter initially overwhelmed him in 1998, and he has never rid himself of the fear of not having done enough to keep others from dying or suffering pain. Kraft describes the effects of PTSD to a depth that is as enlightening as anything else I have read on the topic. People who favor war over diplomacy should be required to read the PTSD portion of this book. —Henry ZeybelPosted in Fiction, Paperback, Poetry, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Vietnam War, Vietnam War memoir, Vietnam War poetry, Vietnam War post-traumatic stress disorder | Tagged 2nd Battalion Ninth Marines,

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. paper pleased me. Introspection and compassion are Kraft's strongest attributes ... By Doc kraft "The Vietnam War veterans I admire most served as Corpsmen and helicopter crewmen. I rate their duties as the riskiest. Therefore, Richard ( Doc) Kraft's Now I Lay Me Down To Weep in the valleys of my mind: The life of a Navy Corpsman (Create Space, 220 pages, $14.95, paper pleased me.Introspection and compassion are Kraft's strongest attributes - and also his most powerful enemies. He clearly expresses the fear he felt about combat and snagging concern over providing proper care for the wounded and dying.The book is a collection of Doc Kraft's prose and poetry. The poems parallel and re-emphasizes the messages in the prose stories. At times, the prose takes on its own cadence and grows more emotional-laden than the accompanying poems.This style prevails in the prologue in which Kraft labels his memoir as"a book of fiction" and delivers a grim lesson: War is without morals, regardless of who is holding the weapon. The dying aspect is all that's left for clarification. There can be no glory in dying for family and there can be no glory in dying for a war.Wounded twice in Vietnam, Kraft developed a front-line knowledge of death.with the 2nd Battalion of the 9th Marines in Leatherneck Square". Henry Zeybel for Mark Leepson, book editor, V.V.A. publication

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