Stop War America
By Robert McLane

This is not a story about a “Poster Marine.”

The author takes you on a journey from the summer of love in San Francisco—with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll—then straight off to thirteen months in Vietnam during the bloodiest year of the war. Here he served with a Marine artillery unit, firing support for Marine and Army units engaged in deadly combat against hard-core North Vietnamese units along the DMZ.

He returned home completely disillusioned and psychically wounded and helped found the Vietnam Veterans Against The War.
He hilariously tells what it really is like to be in a Veterans Hospital psychiatric lock-up ward where he is given massive doses of unwanted and harmful drugs.

Despite the tragedies of his tortured life, his story is done with raw humor, wit and sarcasm.

$17.95

About the Author

Robert McLane was born in Cameron, Texas, a small central Texas town ninety miles north of Austin.  When he was twenty-two months old, he contracted polio but fully recovered. At three, his family moved to the East Texas town of Tyler where he spent his next fourteen years but often spent summers with his brother and sister in Cameron on his grandparents’ farm.

He attended college in Tyler for two years and joined the Marine Corps Reserve in the summer of 1965. In the fall of 1967 he was returned to active duty. His tour of duty in Vietnam with an artillery battery along the DMZ included most of 1968, the bloodiest year of the war.

Upon discharge in January, 1969 he enrolled at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas but dropped out in 1970 to go to New York City to help form The Vietnam Veterans Against The War. He dedicated the next three years of his life to VVAW as the editor of their newspaper, The First Casualty and participated in most of their demonstrations.

In 1974 he was involuntarily committed to a Veteran’s psychiatric hospital in Waco, Texas.

After being released, he headed back to New York City where he drove a taxi for five years and attended The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Hunter College, majoring in theater and film.

He married in 1981 and moved back to Texas where his daughter Tiffany was born in 1982. In 1985, he divorced and moved to Shreveport, Louisiana and raised his daughter with the help of his mother as a single parent while struggling with his own PTSD.

When David Duke ran for senator in Louisiana, Robert founded an organization called DUKEBUSTERS and blanketed the state with anti-Duke bumper stickers. This led to his founding No Respect Publishing that continues to manufacture and sell anti-Republican bumper stickers and buttons.

He continues to dedicate his life to issues of peace and justice and manages to spend part of the winter at his hideaway in Mexico.

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