Allen Clark is a trip tour of duty, Purple Heart recipient who used his journey of personal healing to find the good in life.
Allen B. Clark is a West Point graduate who volunteered for service in Vietnam two years after leaving the US Military Academy. He served with the Fifth Special Forces Group while stationed in Vietnam, but was wounded in an “early-morning mortar attack on the Dak To Special Forces camp on June 17, 1967.” His injuries required both of his legs to be amputated below his knees. He writes:
There’s nothing glorious about war. The people who think there’s any glory to it have not been in it. And once you get there, you don’t fight for mom and apple pie. You fight because you don’t want to let your buddy down.