“I didn’t think it was right that some people had to go while others did not,” he said.
Gilleran volunteered for the service in Scranton, Pa., in 1970 after a couple of guys from his block were drafted and died.
As a sentry, he monitored areas that contained ammunition and fuel, and he conducted perimeter sweeps and base security. Joe Gilleran was a sentry and a dog handler in the Army in Ban Me Thuot, Vietnam, in 1970-71. Many of them at the event who passed by a tent set up by the Vietnam Veterans Dog Handler Association made similar comments: “I had no idea about dogs in Vietnam” and “Did we really leave dogs there?” Some service members tried to get their dogs back to the U.S., but only 204 dogs returned from Vietnam - 2,000 were euthanized.įew people attending a three-day “Welcome Home” commemoration in the nation’s capital to honor Vietnam veterans and mark the 50th anniversary of the war’s end knew about the dogs that served in Vietnam. The Boston Globe also had praise for the novel, stating, "Peter Heller serves up an insightful account of physical, mental, and spiritual survival unfolded in dramatic and often lyrical prose, a difficult tale in which unexpected hope persistently flickers amid darkness.But to the military, the efforts of the dogs were not a factor when it was time to come home. But it also succeeds as a dark, poetic and funny novel in its own right." NPR described the novel as crackerjack and said "With its soulful hero, macabre villains, tender (if thin) love story and action scenes staggered at perfectly spaced intervals, the story unfolds with the vigor of the film it will undoubtedly become. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound. Set in Colorado, a man lives a lonesome existence in an airplane hangar with his dog and a door gunman he has befriended. The Dog Stars is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by Peter Heller.
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