Kerrey, Bob, — When I Was a Young Man: a memoir.

NY, Harcourt, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Kerrey came from a family of soldiers so when the Vietnam draft loomed, he volunteered for the elite Navy SEALs but soon came to. face the brutal reality of the war. In his first firefight, women & children died. His second encounter cost him part of his leg and at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia he turned against the war & could no longer fine solace in his religion either. As his father died, he asked his son to find out how his Uncle John had really died in WWII and so began a quest.