[Occupymendocino] Local Peace Activist Publishes 1969 Vietnam War Report

[John Lewallen]

Feb.3,2016

Dear friend in Occupy Mendocino,

                Here's a press release on a book I just published; please
send it around if you wish. You won't find a more honest report on the
culture of American war in foreign lands. I expect to be doing "reading and
discussion" events with Land of Frozen Laughter in the coming months; let me
know if you would like to help set one up.

                I had a great time working with Cypress House in Ft. Bragg
producing this book, and making it available to bookstores worldwide through
Ingram Book Wholesalers. I'm hoping to finance book production by selling
copies. I'm happy to priority mail a copy for $19.95; I'll pay postage and
sales tax.

                It is a delight doing peace work with you!

--John Lewallen

Pdf of book cover attached.

 

Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company Publishing

P.O. Box 455, Philo, CA 95466

(707)895-9091  <mailto:lewallen at mcn.org> lewallen at mcn.org

 

Local Peace Activist Publishes 1969 Vietnam War Report



Land of Frozen Laughter: A Community Development Volunteer in the Vietnam
War, 1967-1969

 

 

John Lewallen, local peace activist and author of Ecology of Devastation:
Indochina (Penguin Books, 1972), offers an intense two-year immersion in
Vietnam during the era of the 1968 Tet Offensive.

Land of Frozen Laughter, the report Lewallen wrote in 1969 immediately after
returning to Oregon from two years in the Vietnam war, now is a 200-page
book available worldwide.

Lewallen, a founding member of Mendocino County Veterans for Peace Chapter
116, offers Land of Frozen Laughter as a contribution to the telling of
truth about war, true experience, for the healing both of the traumatized
person and the society which supports war.

The reader travels with Lewallen as he struggles to do community projects as
one of the 400 International Voluntary Services volunteers who served in
Vietnam, becoming an angry anti-war activist in a war zone, hunted by an
assassination team. War historians will be interested in the ground-level
reports of military strategy and battles, told through intimate portraits
soldiers and civilians, Vietnamese, Chams, and Raglai Montagnards.

Portraits of "G.I. Vietnam," the macabre world of bars, bases and brothels
where American troops met Vietnamese culture, and a surrealistic tour of
Saigon's night life awaiting the final communist assault, are timely in
understanding today's wartime environments.

"The support of family and friends, especially my wife Barbara, have allowed
me to make this contribution to the worldwide movement for peace conversion
on all levels," says Lewallen, now 73. "Cypress House publishing
professionals in Fort Bragg enabled me to publish a world-class book and
have fun doing it. I expect to present Land of Frozen Laughter to interested
groups in the coming months."

Land of Frozen Laughter is available directly from the author, or at any
bookstore from Ingram Book Wholesalers.  

                    

 

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