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If I recall correctly, you were considering at one time writing about your years in the service but didn't know if you could get permission writing it as a true story. Have you followed up on that, or could you write it as just a book - not giving specifics, etc? I think people would be interested in something like that because of where you were, more than anything else. It's a culture that is not much written about.
I have written a fictional story, around 150,000 words. I can say based on my personal experiences, but if I were to put it in a memoir or a non-fiction type the military has to approve it. I haven't published or gotten it published. This I want on paper, book form. It is a story that if someone who served in Laos, Vietnam could read and nod their heads as if it might be true. This one I do not want on kindle.
Besides, fiction lets me embellish things. It is all based in a way on things that happened or things I knew about or was told about. But fiction lets me put my own take to it and change names, dates, places, to where no one can say it really occured.