The Nam Within, by Leonard Reese, is a narrative non-fiction memoir that speaks to veterans from all wars who deal with PTSD, depression, and the feeling that they are "going crazy,” and to their families and friends, so that they can see that survival is possible and that they are not alone, despite the battle scars that keep rising to the surface long after the physical combat ceases.
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It is the feel for the war as it happened, and continues to happen, to this one man trapped within his memories, and that I pray, might open at least one lone person’s eyes, or increase a loved ones’ ability to understand their self-imposed blindness.
Leonard Reese was a rifleman in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, with the 2nd platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division in 1969 – 1970.