Angel of Death

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Martin Luther King, Jr. is often remembered for his dedicated, nonviolent fight against racism and his famous “I Have A Dream” speech. At the time MLK was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he was the youngest winner at the age of 35. Tragically, he was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at only 39 years old. Today, we honor him for the incredible impact he had on civil rights in our country.

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PTS is THE CANCER OF THE SOUL. I first used this phrase in my book. Death Angel.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. In other countries they say Post Traumatic Stress, no disorder. After being in Bosnia,Croatia,and Serbia. I have dropped the word disorder as well.

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18/01/2022

With John Blehm, Sr.

We received this message from an old friend, Chaplain Rachel Coggins, Lt. Col. retired, U.S. Army Reserves:

"Hey, been thinking of you guys. I did a funeral Friday for a Vietnam vet And I read a passage from John's book. As I was rereading it, I again realized what a good writing job John did with that book. It's still out there and people are still reading it. Please share this with him."

She also mentioned she read from the Intro and also from the back of the book: "As he said in the back of the book, no one really understands besides someone who has been there. So I used John's words to give a feel of what it was like for a 19 year-old to go to Vietnam and how that would have affected him for the rest of his life."

"Those were great words. He did a great job writing. The service was very touching. I believe I helped his family understand better and be more at peace with his passing."

It is gratifying to know John's words are having an impact on Vietnam Veterans and their families even now.

Thank you Rachel Coggins for sharing with us.

Joh

11/11/2021

Thanks to ALL our veterans for their service and sacrifice for this country.

17/09/2021

By the sick puppy

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2011
The book Death Angel by John Blehm SR. was an excelent read. I was not able to put the book down. Looking through the eyes of one persons perspective of the trauma that he has gone through. The personnal and emotional growth that he went through. Knowing how the author has grown and turned his life around by helping others over come the cancer of the soul. I really hope that those soldiers who have been through so much will really take the time to read this book. God bless the author and all of our soldiers.

17/09/2021

By RG Cav Pilot

As a Vietnam Vet and an Army Helicopter Pilot I found this book to be extremely interesting and especially enlightening with regard to PTSD. The author, John Blehm, experienced the horror of war that is difficult and somewhat impossible for most people to relate to. While most Vietnam Vets returned with some mental scars; some, like Sgt Blehm, experienced the worst on a way too frequent basis.

For Sgt Blehm, fighting this war was his job and he felt a duty to his country to be the very best at killing the enemy. And, at the same time, he was conflicted; with a deep felt guilt for taking another life. Add to this the extreme sorrow of seeing many of his close friends killed in action. This mental anguish was a burden that impacted Blehm's daily life for at least 30 years.

This book chronicles Sgt Blehm's combat experiences in Vietnam and how those events impacted his life dealing with PTSD. It details how, after spiraling out of control, he was able to turn his life around through VA counseling, his pastor, his wife and finding faith in God. The last seven chapters give sound advice to those suffering from PTSD, whether it be war-related or caused by some other tragedy. This is a great book for those seeking answers to PTSD and those who are simply attempting to understand.

17/09/2021

By pjj

From the first words of this book, I was captured--a prisoner of war of sorts. The intense descriptions of the physical and emotional realities of war give the reader a taste of PTSD themselves, just enough to begin to understand that every soldier who has ever faced combat has already given their life for their country--whether or not they died on the battlefield.
John Blehm's story bears beautiful fruit from such intense pain as he shares his ongoing healing from these scars; and so bravely and vulnerably exposes his struggles in order that others may share in the healing. I have so much admiration for Mr. Blehm's courage in battle and for the perhaps-even-greater courage it took to write this book. Truly he has in his thoughts the numbers of other soldiers and vets who are carrying this unbearable burden through life.
This is a book to have several copies on hand to share with those who are confused and feeling hopeless after they return from war or their loved one returns from war. There is hope to be found within the pages of this book.
Every American should read this book to appreciate the great price being paid for our freedom and security. Thank you, Mr.Blehm, and stay brave.

17/09/2021

By Amazon Customer

As an Army blue star mother and the co-author/illustrator of books for Military children, the things that impact our soldiers are of personal interest. I knew of PTSD of course, and had the head knowledge of what that is supposed to mean. I found that I knew nothing at all until I read this book by John Blehm.

John writes a disclaimer in the beginning that he is not a writer, but don't believe that for a moment. The story draws you in, and you stand with him in the jungle of Vietnam. You are there feeling the confusion and frustration of being home and seeing everything as frivolous and lacking meaning. My heart was broken by the brokenness, and inspired by the incredible courage it must have taken to write such a book.

I have always thought, as the mother of a soldier, that those sons and daughters that fight for the freedoms we mostly take for granted, belong to all of us as a nation. I believe that even deeper now. It is our blessing to reach out and try to understand, as far as we can, what the cost of that freedom really is.
Thank you for a life changing book, and for pointing the way to true healing.

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17/09/2021

By Richard Durso

This is the best book I have read about Vietnam. The VA needs to read this book so they understand what PTSD is all about.

17/09/2021

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2016
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By Molly P.

An amazing story of hope for anyone who has PTSD or a person who is close to someone with PTSD. This book shows how to have healing and freedom in your future.

17/09/2021

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential read By Amanda
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2021
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This book was very good in understanding PTSD. I recommend for anyone who has had family or is in health care to read.

17/09/2021

Looking through Amazon reviews for my book and thought I would share a few today.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read for Service Members and Their Families
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2011
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I found out about this book after having it recommended to me while my husband was deployed. Through a program I founded for the spouses of deployed soldiers, I found myself being confronted almost daily with the marital wreckage caused by combat stress reactions. I liken the families to the "walking dead". These families are like zombies; present in body, but absent in the soul. Sometimes, the soldier has suffered his initial stress during his first of four deployments, and the family has been in an emotionally amputated state ever since. Mr. Blehms book gives insight into the thought process of a solider whose confronted with two "rights" that cannot be reconciled, because the are simultaneously, wrong.

This book is not only eye-opening to me as a spouse who works with other military families, but it is eye-opening as a human being. It, for me, is the kind of book that makes real the point that we cannot judge. We will never have enough information to judge what we would do in someone elses shoes. It is heart-wrenching to think what these service members endure, not only in action, but in the eyes of those who piously, on the outside looking in, criticize, scrutinize, and issue a verdict on things their own natural mind couldn't possibly grasp in full. Ah! We are so quick to condemn!

SFC Blehm, is an unlikely hero. A hero whose strength emerges from his decision to surrender to his own percieved weakness. But make no mistake, SFC Blehm, the reader is not hindered by the same perception. We recognize your strength as we stand with you in the sickening stillness of the morbid jungle, and also in the crisp air under the weight of your comrades' printed (and unprinted) names on the wall of The Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

This book isn't only a message of reconciliation for the warrior of yesterday, but a fresh message of hope for the warrior of today.

In all truth, this book is raw. It is the heart of a man in black and white. And if you can stand to look upon the wounds of war, you will be different when you close the book. Thank you, SFC Blehm, for the guts it took to pen this amazing and life changing book.

05/07/2021

The 4th of July 1969 In Vietnam on Firebase Dolly. Our unit is gaurding the perimeter.It's so very dark that you can barely see. Everybody was thinking about how they spent the 4th at home. Firebase Dolly was on a mountain top and in daylight you could see for miles all around. Every bunker had a few hand flares and all of a sudden one soldier popped a flare for the 4th.Thats all it took.All of a sudden it started a chain reaction and soldiers on every bunker began popping their hand flares.In a matter of minutes the whole firebase was lit up it seemed like daylight.It only lasted for a few minutes but it was our celebration. The whole mountain top was so bright that all the other firebases in the valleys below us could see what we did and so they followed suit and started shooting off all their flares. It was an awesome site to see. Now,on every I think of that night in Vietnam and how we celebrated it. It's one of my best memories of Vietnam.

12/06/2021

Stand for something or die for nothing.You have a choice and you have to live with it.What will it be?