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I completedof the Vietnam series, I was worried that the author would leave the series hanging, I was happy to see Walking Wounded and not one bit disappointed, This book follows Morris as he brings Rudi's body home, Ivan returns to the war and his destiny, Beck tries to adjust to all that has occurred, Each is trying to not only dal with Rudi's death, but his own thoughts and fears of returning home and facing each other and family.
Could their friendship survive This book left me wanting a little more, Sure hope there is another book to come, Loved the otherbooks. This one was a bit weird for me, Morris, Beck, Ivan and Rudi have been friends since forever, so when Rudi was drafted, Morris convinced the others join up and go to Vietnam together, thinking they could watch out for each other by joining a different branch of the Armed Forces.
Each of the previous four books in the series focuses on one of the friends,

Now, in Walking Wounded, Rudi has been killed by friendly fire, apparently, the friendliest fire of all, and this novel follows each man's reaction to their friend's death.


Morris, whose idea it was for them to all join up, is feeling terrible guilt about having convinced them to do that.
He immediately requests and is granted the job of escorting Rudi's body home, There is a lot of introspection during the trip, But once home, Morris has some difficulty being there, in part because he knows the truth about Rudi's death and in part because the adjustment to suddenly being in a civilian setting is difficult for combat soldiers.
This was especially true for Vietnam soldiers, who had to face protesters, as Morris does while home, who held them responsible for the war that they were against.
Morris is still in the Navy and, though he is now stateside for his remaining tour of duty, his request for how he would like to spend that time may surprise readers, but when I think about it, I realized it would be a healing process for him.


Beck, the smartest one of the bunch, joined the Air Force, flying a Caircraft, defoliating the forests of Vietnam with Agent Orange.
Beck is struggling to keep things together for himself, even as he is almost overwhelmed by the loss of his friend and by the realization that he is fighting a senseless war.


Ivan is an Army trained sharpshooter, who seems to just appear on different missions in this book, until he finally is shot in the face.
Sent stateside, on a first class plane, Ivan decides to take off once he reaches the states and hitchhikes the rest of the way home.
Despite winning medals, Ivan is having a great deal of difficulty with his Vietnam experience and with Rudi's death and takes off for the family's hunting cabin to be alone.


I have only read one other book by Chris Lynch, a WWII novel, but I will say that he does know how to write a war book for middle grade readers.
There is enough fighting with the enemy and among the American soldiers themselves to make it feel realistic with being too graphic.
The language is a little cleaner than I would have imagined it was in reality, but that's OK,

I don't usually read the fifth book in a series if I haven't read the previous four, but I did this time.
I found I didn't have much problem figuring things out, The novel is narrated in the first person by all four of the friends in alternating chapters, so we get the full effect of their reaction to Rudi's death and to the war in general.
I was a little taken aback by Lynch still giving Rudi a voice, but in the end, it worked,

I thought Lynch really captured the disorientation, confusion, and anger that accompanied so many Vietnam soldiers as they fought a war they didn't fully understand

and returned to a hostile homeland.
Morris and Ivan are clearly beginning to experience the emotion toll of the Vietnam war and the disenfranchised feeling so many felt after the war.


As war books go, that is books that actually take place in the midst of the fighting, this is an excellent novel.
I remember feeling the same way about the first Chris Lynch book I read, The Right Fight,

Everyone thought that Book: Casualties of War was the last book in the series, but then Walking Wounded appeared, Is this the last book Don't count on it, There are still too many lose ends, beginning with what happened to Beck,

This book is recommended for readers age

This review was originally posted at sitelinkThe Children's War I read WALKING WOUNDED by Chris Lynch.
The setting is between camp and the escort location, Characters are Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck,

One of the four friends were sent off to the Vietnam war, Which was later killed. The other three signed up and made a pledge to keep each other alive, So when they found out they have lost one, One of them took his body, while another one defys orders in the act of an protest, while the last guy has to go in alone to win the war.


I liked the book, I found this book for I wanna go to a special force and it looked very interesting, I feel as if you like war related subjects or want to hear stories as of how it is, And what to expect Chris Lynchs books will be for you, Was a great book and a real tearjerker, But really never found out what happened to two of the boys, Readers will want to read the books that precede this title in the Vietnam series since doing so will help them understand the characters better.
Even without reading the earlier titles, though, it's clear that four young men from Boston have been changed forever by their experiences in the Vietnam War.
When one of the fourlifetime buddiesis drafted, the rest of them enlist and promise to take care of one another, easier said than done during the war.
But this title starts off with Rudi dead, killed by a sniperit appears to be Ivan who was the sniperand the friends are devastated.
While Morris escorts the body home, Beck struggles to keep things on an even keel while the war grows more and more senseless.
Meanwhile, Ivan disappears and pops up on various missions, Although some essential background is missing without the previous four books in the series, readers will still relate to the disorientation Morris feels upon returning home, and to Ivan's confusion about what to do with himself.
The emotional toll of war on its survivors and their friends and family are described vividly here as each of the four friends takes a turn at narrating the story.
The author even includes scenes of the war protests outside recruitment centers and describes how orders were ignored as things grew messier in Vietnam.
It's almost as though he was right there in the thick of things, .