Raw Courage and Fugitive Photographs: Remembrance and Restoration, The Vietnam War, 1967 - 1971 is a book of photographs taken during the Vietnam War by Jerry Berry and other soldiers who served in the Stand Alone Battalion, the Currahees, the 101st Airborne Division, during 1967- 1971, and by John Shoemaker, "Chargers," Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division (1970 - 1971).

Carol Harrison, sister of Lt. John Harrison, 1Lt. (2nd. Plt. Ldr
and XO, Co. A, 3-506, 1967-1968) selected from some 8,000 images, and digitally restored the photographs to create this book. These pictures are evocative of the soldiers' lives during that time in Vietnam. The photographs capture what cannot be put into words- there is a response to a call to service. There is a visceral immediacy, a latent sense of terror, a vulnerability at all times, an ominous sense of alert, a personal rapport with the soldiers in the pictures. The atmosphere here is of a very foreign land, which can be both beautiful on a good day, and horrific beyond description on a bad one.
There are also insightful quotations that capture the temper of this critical time. John Shoemaker has contributed the writings and drawings by a NVA soldier to add a further, compelling and unusual dimension to the profile of "the enemy."
Recently, Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam War Veteran with his brother, wrote a note about Raw Courage.

The book, Raw Courage and Fugitive Photographs: Remembrance and Restoration, The Vietnam War, is composed with appreciation and respect for all of the American men and women who served in Vietnam, and the author does not make a profit from the book.