Sept. 17: “Heroes to the End” is a finalist for an award at the Military Writers Society of America convention banquet on Nov. 10 in Charleston, S.C. I am awaiting a posting on the group’s website in the next few days to inform me whether I won a gold, silver or bronze medal in the memoir/biography category.

The award will be helpful in promoting the memoir of my 1971-72 Vietnam tour. I have sold about 600 copies of the self-published book and have three Connecticut screenplay writers working on a proposal for a Netflix series based on it. The book revolves around some 80 articles I wrote for Stars and Stripes, many of them during the North Vietnamese Army’s Easter Offensive, when I spent a lot of time in Pleiku and Kontum in the Central Highlands. I have donated $12,000 in appearance fees and book sales proceeds to a nonprofit that runs homeless shelters for veterans — United Veterans Beacon House.