Ghosts of Vietnam: The Draft
Ghosts of Vietnam series
Ghosts of Vietnam: The Draft
Status: NovelA draft letter arrives in Missouri, and the war begins before the soldier ever leaves home.
Eminence, Missouri. April 1964. Eighteen-year-old Andrew H. Lee knows the land, the tools, and the quiet ways men carry what they cannot say. What he does not know is how to make peace with an order to report for induction.
Raised not to kill and trained to obey, Andy is pulled between faith, family, heritage, survival, and a future no one asked for. The Draft follows the pressure before deployment: the letter, the home place, the church, the road north, the training, and the silence gathering around him.
About the Novel
The Draft is historical fiction grounded in truth, memory, records, and the domestic shadow of Vietnam. It is a war novel before the battlefield: Southern, Protestant in shape, family-bound, and attentive to what happens when the state reaches into a home through the mail slot.
The novel introduces Andrew H. Lee and the people who hold him together as the machinery of induction turns farm boys into soldiers.
Themes
- Family duty and inherited silence.
- Faith, obedience, conscience, and the demand to serve.
- Southern memory, lineage, and the weight of names.
- The draft as a war that begins before foreign soil.
- Farm boys becoming soldiers without clean answers.
For Readers Who Want
- Historical fiction that respects the period without romanticizing it.
- War fiction centered on family, faith, duty, and consequence.
- A slow-burn beginning to a Vietnam story that starts at home.
- Plainspoken emotional weight instead of clean heroes or easy villains.