I had several reasons for wanting to write the book:  

1. I wrote my book at my US VA Hospital, PTSD clinic counselor’s recommendation.  The purpose; to assist me in my efforts at better dealing with my PTSD sufferings.  Based on the fact that, since, according to him, everything I had done while I served my country, was now declassified, I was free to do so.  Things went slowly at first. In the beginning, I simply wrote about the things that I did in the military and later, after many hours of counseling, I wrote about what other people had done to me at the behest of my commanding officers and their NCO's.  All the while, my counselor assured me that what I kept secret inside me about the war in Vietnam was declassified and could now be discussed openly.  He further instructed that by my writing it all down in a linear and cohesive way, that act alone might allow me to get some of it out, so to speak. Well, I did write things down; short sentences at first and then paragraphs, and all those notes, over the course of a number of years of PTSD clinic therapy, became the super novel Codename Litefoot.  Of course, the actual writing of the novel Codename Litefoot began after I was informed by my counselor at the American Lake VA Hospital, that there was nothing more he or the clinic he worked in could do for me.  I was stuck with who I had become and my life would be, from that moment on, and from the time I had been tortured by my superiors while in the military, formed and controlled by PTSD because of it.
   
2. I have attempted many times over these past forty + years, since I got out of the US Air Force in 1968, to get compensation for my service connected/caused disabilities:  Unemployability, Nervous disorders, Related High Blood pressure problems, PTSD, Agent Orange contamination, Tooth Loss and other related dental problems, etc. without success.  I have asked for compensation from the Veterans Administration for the disabilities I suffer with that were caused by what happened to me at Sewart Air Force Base in Tennessee at the hands of CWO Flynn and those he directed who tortured and harassed me every minute of every day and night.  To date, I have been unsuccessful and have not receive any assistance what so ever from my government or the VA.  Hopefully, my writing the book to inform the people of my country of what my government is doing, or not, to or for our Veterans will wake someone up and maybe, just maybe, someone in Washington DC will see a need to respond favorably in my case and in many others.  I am in the process of writing a second novel about all that the VA has and has not done to and for me since I got out of the service, to be released sometime next year. 

Why did I want to place all this information here, on my website?  TO INFORM YOU!  EVERYONE! And,

(A)      Because I am tired of having to fight a battle with my own government to get what I believe I should receive from it for compensation for my military-service-connected and or caused disabilities.  Especially after the US Government allowed its military recruiters to lie to not only myself but to thousands of other enlisted men who also cannot get their rightful disability payments from them.  AND...
(1)  I wanted to let others who suffer with PTSD know that because the therapy of writing it all down seems to have worked for me, to a degree anyway, they needed to know.  Therefore, I recommend this, writing things down thing. I mean, to all Veterans who suffer with military or combat caused PTSD and to every other person who suffers from the disorder.  I won't lie to you, It is very difficult to do, I mean, this aint no kiddie ride.  But if you can manage it somehow, to speak it or to write it down, so your brain can finally process it and get it out, it might help you too.  If you can let that fear of allowing someone else to know what you actually did and how you actually felt while you were there, fighting in the war, or whatever else it is that you are hiding from the world, to escape your inner thoughts somehow, your brain will finally process the information and it will have less of an effect on you.  If you can just tell someone, anyone, or even a tree, a stream in the woods, or your walls at home about those things, you'll feel better afterward.  Hell, shout it out and get it out!  I found that speaking about it and/or writing it down, over and over again, editing it in my mind each time I did, while looking at each word of each sentence for meaning,  actually allowed me to let some of it go.  I finally got to a point, over time, where its importance, those bad memories, those secrets I harbored deep within, and the perceived necessity of their secrecy meant less and less to me.  Of course learning from my PTSD Clinic Counselor at the America Lake VA Hospital in Lakewood, Washington, that everything about Vietnam and those years of my service had been declassified, didn't hurt.  You can do it too.  Remember, no man or woman, the people who caused you to suffer, should be allowed to have that kind of control over your entire life.  Kick-em to the curb.  Get rid of their control over you.  I wish you all the luck and I hope this bit of advice helps you.  After all, it ain't nothin'...Right?

2.         I am using my novel and its supporting website to inform the peoples of the United States and the world about the thousands of US Veterans, like myself, who suffer with PTSD, but do not receive monetary compensation of any kind for their service connected disabilities from the US government.  Remember, suffering with PTSD and unemployability issues  is the main cause of and reasons for my writing my novel.  
     Sadly, today, it appears to be the policy of the US government, even since when I was in Vietnam, obviously, to have US Veteran Administration and US Military doctors, and I use that term Doctor loosely, pin a label on Veterans who apply for compensation for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.   Instead of listing that person in his or her medical records as having PTSD, Military Doctor's instead, list that person as having a personality disorder, one that they, the GI themselves, brought with them into the military.  This little trick, someone in Washington's idea of how to save the government from having to pay Veterans their deserved benefits, probably the President himself, allows the US government to deny benefits and compensation to our Veterans based on the fact the US government orders military doctors to say the Veterans disorder was caused by a prior to service condition.  On that premis the US Government refuses to pay our Veterans compensation for their disability.  The VA Hospitals across America do however, treat all these Veterans every day of every year for the stresses and related unemployability and mental problems caused by PTSD free of charge, or nearly anyway, at specially designed and constructed PTSD clinics.  Talk about BS.  In my case, I have been treated for having and suffering with PTSD for all these years but the doctors don't say in my records that I have PTSD caused by my sufferings while in the military.  NO!  NO!  They couldn't do that.  

The question here is simple; Didn't everyone have to pass a physical when we entered the US military?  I did!  Much of that physical was a mental test/exam as well.  You remember, the written psychological test we all had to take before we were accepted into the US Military...  So, what gives here?  Because of this little trick, thousands of Veterans continue to be homeless, forced to live on the streets of our country, hungry and cold, all of whom are now tired of having to struggle with the VA to gain any kind of support.  They, at this late date, have simply given up.  The worst part of all of this is that the people our Veterans gave up their lives and their futures for, are today, shunning these men and women, thinking of them as unwanted around their homes.  Believe me, if any US homeowner lost his or her income and couldn't pay the mortgage for the home they think they own, they too would be living on the streets and sewers right next to the men and women who fought to keep them free and safe from aggression.  Many of these people are only a pay check or two away from that reality. 

The Guaranteed Housing promised to all Vietnam Veterans when they entered one of the branches of our armed forces in the mid 60's was apparently nothing more than that, a pipe dream, a promise, one not meant to be kept.  The US Government has allowed so many Veterans to be kept from home purchase due to their having poor credit scores.  This problem is a direct result of these Veterans being unemployable due to their service-connected disabilities, illnesses the US Government refuses to pay compensation for.  This leads to our Veterans being homeless...  This is just another; Let's see now, how can we get away with not paying for or assisting with Veteran housing like we peomised?  These, FUGI, schemes, in my opinion, are right out of think tanks in Washington DC.  If this situation appalls or angers you as an American, please write to your Senators and to your Congressmen and tell them you, as a United States Citizen, and their employer, want this changed, NOW!  Not Later.