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New Book/Moon Shadow Of War
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PRESS RELEASE – New Book Explores War On The Home Front
Moon Shadow Of War is a different kind of book about the U.S. War in Vietnam. There are books about the war’s debilitating effects on returning Vietnam veterans. There are a multitude of memoirs about leaders of the anti-war movements at student epicenters such as Berkley, Ann Harbor and Columbia. Moon Shadow Of War breaks new ground in exploring the war’s impact on a family, on a small town community and especially on a work place, a grade school.
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This memoir engages the reader in a new and different way. Len Yannielli lived, as he says it, in the Italian American hood. Subservience to the Italian American father was absolute. As his antipathy grew toward the U.S. War in Vietnam, a country that he admits he could not find on a map, the ramifications in his family were earth shaking. It would get physical.
What was happening in small town USA as the conflagration raged half way around the world? Served up in the tiny hamlet of Thomaston, Connecticut, where Yannielli taught science in a junior senior high school, would be a man dressed as a thirteenth century monk right out of an Elmer Gantry type novel. A retired military general would address his students urging the bombing of North Vietnam “into the stone age.“
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With mounting military draft notices and the death of a high school friend on the battlefield, Yannielli took a different road. As he likes to say, “ I didn’t know a radical from a radish. For all I knew, SDS was a soap pad.” While the learning curve would be agonizingly stretched out and bumpy, he stirred into action.
Putting a “Give Peace A Chance” bumper sticker on his car would have a bizarre consequence. His jalopy was taken hostage. (You read that correctly.) His community anti-war activism would have an even more dire consequence to his teaching job and his career. There were more educators fired during the late 1960s and early 1970s than during the depths of the cold war. Yannielli was one of them.
In this gripping memoir, the reader learns how it all happened through the eyes of one young teacher who learned to thrive while in the Moon Shadow of War.
To see the exuberant reader reviews of Moon Shadow Of War from around the country, more about the author and current blogs, go to Amazon Books Author Central.
For interviews, contact Len.Yannielli@gmail.com
Author Presentation – Vinalhaven Public Library, Friday, August 2nd,, 7 PM.
Amazon Books, An E-Book, $4.99
