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Title: Tally-Ho Green

Author: Warren P. Weitzel

Narrator: James Dark

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-23-12

Publisher: Warren P. Weitzel

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Them's bullets! I thought to myself. And I kept running. When I reached a clump of trees I took cover immediately and started shaking all over. Those bastards are shooting at me and trying to kill me! What seemed like a minute of fear was probably only a few seconds, and then it kicked in. I instinctively raised my M-16 and fired away, emptying the 20-round clip. Bullets were zinging through the air all over the place. Thiswas combat!

In 1966, the son of a mild-mannered ex-Marine sharpshooter was a manager at an amusement park in San Jose, CA. Warren Weitzel received his invitation from the government to participate in the ongoing conflict in Vietnam. The Army wasn't what he was expecting, but Weitzel manages to combine his life training with the Army's training, and survived for a year "in country". And so here are his observations, good and bad, as a sergeant in a combat platoon.

Members Reviews:

One man's experience well told

I just read Tally Ho-Green in one sitting. To say it draws the reader in would be an understatement. It is the story of how one man navigated the journey from the most idyllic and innocent world (that of Frontier Village Amusement Park) to an unimaginable world that was the polar opposite and, thankfully, back again. It is both starkly real and funny at the same time. The reader knows that this is a first person account, so knows the author will survive the dangers he writes about, but that doesn't make it any less riveting. At times, it is edge of your seat, lip bitingly, suspenseful. At times I laughed out loud. My favorite quotes involve references to "yucky leeches" and the truly inaccurate description "simple-minded sergeant with an amusement-park background." I found myself tearing up at the honest accounts of myriad of situations, but most of all at a mother's reaction to seeing her son safely home.

Full disclosure: I know the author, he was my first boss and is a man I have always greatly admired and respected. I realize the courage it took for this very private man to write this account and I am grateful that he did. I hope more men who served in Viet Nam can find a way to write to tell their experiences. If they could perhaps it might help resolve some of the strong feelings about the war that has scarred our generation especially those who served (most by `special invitation' as the author calls it. This is not a political story; it is a very human and very honest one.

I think this book is a "must read" for all, but most especially for those who served and for those of us who waited, and worried, and wanted the war to end so all the soldiers could come home.

A window into a war

Warren Weitzel's book gives us a look into war. I know that's been done many times, but this specifically gives us a look at a type of fighting most of us, heck almost nobody has any knowledge of. This may be the kind of fighting our fathers, and or, fiends participated in and have been hesitant, to say the least, about sharing with us. Now we may understand why.

This may not be the most eloquent book you've ever read, but it will put you in the shoes of a combat soldier who was in the thick of it in Viet Nam. It maybe help you understand why so many vets have had so little to say about their time there, and why they were different when they returned home.

Warren has shared an important part of his life in this book.