{"id":14,"date":"2024-07-24T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/856702\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:29:08","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/874309\/","title":{"rendered":"HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Point of the Spear<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><br>By: <strong><strong><strong>Eduardo Infante Antonio<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Why I wrote this Book<br><br>I became interested in writing about the Vietnam War from my own perspective when I saw TV documentaries showing marines and some army soldiers indiscriminately burning Vietnamese thatch houses, destroying livestock and capturing old men, women and children. Those documentaries give a negative impression to the American public, that all American soldiers did that. <br><br>This book is to tell the readers from my own personal combat experiences, that there were American soldiers and ARVN Rangers who fought and died courageously against the Viet Cong guerillas and North Vietnamese Army soldiers without harming old men, women or children. On my tour of duty from 1966 to 1967, my recon platoon, my 4th\/12th Battalion, my 199th Brigade and the gallant South Vietnamese Black Panther Rangers that fought and died beside us, did not burn any thatch houses or shoot any innocent civilians.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#f5f5f5\">\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong><strong>About The Author<\/strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">The author has four children from his first wife Estella. He now has seven grandchildren, and two great grandsons. 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