Forget Me Not

Details: Forget Me Not by Michele Ashman Bell.  This is a wonderfully heart warming story of courage, faith and healing.  An American soldier and his men are captured in the early stages of the Vietnam war.  As POWs they experience one of the worst tortures POWs have had to survive and when one does make it to the outside world, the nightmares are so terrible he feels that closure will come by revisiting Vietnam with his family.  But things don't go to plan, one POW must learn to trust those who were his captors, learn to find help in the most unlikely of places, and people.  Learn how a young teenager discovers her Vietnamese family and the beautiful reunion and peace that comes from the damage of war.

Information: What I love most about this book is that when I started reading it I had already decided not to enjoy it, but just to read it because I haven't done a book review in a while, and needed to do another one.  Then I was hit with an emotional, spiritual, imagination surprise and found that I couldn't stop reading this.  I needed to find out what happened.  I needed to find out how the back over summary came to play in the book's plot.  A second surprise came as I learned a lesson that has been bugging me in my personal life, I was able to learn the answer from this book randomly.  Now I'm very grateful that I read this book.  I'm so glad that my attitude was able to change, and I'm so glad the author was able to put so much detail in the the Vietnam country I could easily picture how beautiful it was, how hot and sticky it was.  I know what Vietnamese food tastes like, and am so not a fishy-sauce person.  This would an excellent choice for a book club!  I highly recommend this book, it WILL change your life for the better!

My Answer: So a few months ago a good friend insulted another even better friend of mine very harshly.  Leaving me stuck in the middle still wanting to be good friends with both of these ladies because I am very loyal to friendships that I make.  Then a few weeks later the friend who did the insulting hurt me as well.  So I was trying to figure out how to deal with this as I'm not big on confrontation but I'm done being taken advantage of, well the answer came in this book about not judging others, not holding grudges, and finding help in the most unlikely of people!

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