The Vietnam generation paved the way for my generation of warfighters to get help and establish the Veterans Administration as we know it today. Some of the men from this generation chronicled their war exploits and published them for the rest of the world to know what happened there. This is/was more important than you can imagine. Without written testimony and first-hand accounts from the ground, we as a people, could never properly learn from it.  One of the more detailed books on the Vietnam conflict is called Battlelines. It was written by LtCol. David B. Brown USMC (retired) and his lovely daughter Tiffany Brown Holmes. LtCol. Brown earned a Silver Star medal for Gallantry in combat. He was a Company Commander in Vietnam, who took over command of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion 5th Marines, shortly after they cleared Hue City.  Following his time in Vietnam, first as an advisor and then as the Fox Company Commander, Brown had a distinguished career in the Marine Corps. LtCol Brown instructed at the U.S. Naval Academy and headed up the Marine Corps procurement budget. Upon retirement, he was a logistics consultant for both the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy. He served as the director of the 2nd Marine Division Association, he has published numerous articles in the Marine Corps Gazette, and the Amphibious War Review. He has also authored books on training, automated information systems, and logistics. He remains very active in his local community and is in the process of writing another book.