Governor of Do Son

About the Book

This fictional novella is a lifelong story of the friendship between a sailor and a marine that starts in enemy territory of North Vietnam and ends with their funerals forty years later. It’s a love story and a war story and it will make you feel proud to be an American. The story relates what life was like for military personnel in battle and after serving. It relates the pride of our veterans and highlights the pains and sacrifices they endured as very young men. It introduces religious conflicts with killing an enemy and not committing a mortal sin. The main character is a coward but is touched by the hand of God and becomes the most dangerous man in Nam. All he ever wanted to do was to lead a normal life with a wife and children. But God had different plans. The veterans of the Vietnam conflict were spit upon when they returned to the States. My story tries to show the respect they truly deserved.

About the Author

Jerome Skrocki is sixty-seven years old and served in the nuclear navy for six years and received a letter of accommodation for over eight hundred helicopter operations in Vietnam. After the navy, he worked in the nuclear industry as an engineer for forty years, and he is now retired. He loves his six grandchildren and he still plays a little golf with his wife of forty-four years. He had this story in his head for over twenty-five years, probably because nightmares and memories of Nam always resurfaced. This is his first and last book.