A Hellish Place of Angels: Con Thien: One Man's Journey - Paperback

by Daryl Eigen (Author)

In this War memoir, Eigen gives voice to his fellow veteran's experiences of the Vietnam War that culminated in September of 1967 in the brutal battle (Siege) of Con Thien. This defining engagement marked the beginning of the TET offensive and battle of Khe Sanh. He fought with the famous Marine Infantry Battalions 3/26 and 2/9 of the Third Division. Through letters written home, blended with published, attributed media and real war experiences A Hellish Place of Angels provides an in-depth and riveting insight into war and documents a spiritual Journey that took a 13+ month tour of combat experience and more than a half century of living to begin to understand.

Author Biography

Daryl J. Eigen served in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967 and was wounded in combat more than once. Daryl earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. and an M.A. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA. He worked as a Member and Supervisor of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and held executive positions in several high tech firms in the networking and communications field. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and contributed a number of key developments including one of the first, if not the first, software simulations of an artificial neural network under special grants in 1970 to 1973. He led the introduction of speech recognition in the telephone network by using a machine recognition of 1 and O for collect call acceptance. He did early work on Cluster Analysis for NASA and on Big Data for The Bell System. More Importantly Daryl has a beautiful wife, a son and daughter and a 5 grand children. Daryl lives with his wife near Santa Fe, New Mexico.