Dennis Skirvin is donating the proceeds of his wartime fiction novel to the Delaware nonprofit, Warriors Helping Warriors.
"I'm a Vietnam War veteran. Combat, got the Purple Heart," said Dennis Skirvin of Wilmington. "A lot of my friends never made it home. Some of them did, some of them were ripped up pretty badly."
Skirvin, blessed to be home, married his high school sweetheart and started a family. A long career with DuPont led into his retirement, where he focused on honing his skills as a writer. "I wanted to tell people, explain in a way of what it was like for soldiers," he said. "So, I wrote this book and I called it, 'The Short-Timer.'"
"The Short-Timer: A Story of Love and War" tells the fictional tale of a Vietnam War veteran's haunting memories and his woman's quest to save him from danger and despair. "This is a fictional piece, but I could have never written it without being a ground soldier in Vietnam," said Skirvin.
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