Vietnam Veterans Album
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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 1993-06-15
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1563111225
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Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 1993-06-15
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1563111225
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Doug Bradley
Publisher: UMass + ORM
Published: 2016-01-06
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 161376426X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“The diversity of voices and songs reminds us that the home front and the battlefront are always connected and that music and war are deeply intertwined.” —Heather Marie Stur, author of 21 Days to Baghdad For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam’s Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.” For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools.” And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die” or the song that gives this book its title. In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight. They also demonstrate that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans—black and white, Latino and Native American, men and women, officers and “grunts”—whose personal reflections drive the book’s narrative. Many of the voices are those of ordinary soldiers, airmen, seamen, and marines. But there are also “solo” pieces by veterans whose writings have shaped our understanding of the war—Karl Marlantes, Alfredo Vea, Yusef Komunyakaa, Bill Ehrhart, Arthur Flowers—as well as songwriters and performers whose music influenced soldiers’ lives, including Eric Burdon, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Country Joe McDonald, and John Fogerty. Together their testimony taps into memories—individual and cultural—that capture a central if often overlooked component of the American war in Vietnam.
Author: Don Lawson
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780531101391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated history, with emphasis on American involvement, of the war in Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh's declaration of independence to the withdrawal of United States troops.
Author: Lee Andresen
Publisher: Savage Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781886028609
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Author: Philip F. Napoli
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-06-11
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0809073188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of poignant oral histories challenges the myths and prejudices surrounding the veterans of the Vietnam War, surveying the experiences of soldiers who in spite of traumatizing experiences returned home to pursue an understanding of what they endured and serve productive lives of public service.
Author: Dean Ellis Kohler
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2009-09-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780061242557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"During a time when none of us knew for sure if we would live or die, I came to know the true power of music." Dean Kohler is about to make it big—he's finally scored a national record deal! But his dreams are abruptly put on hold by the arrival of his draft notice. Now he's in Qui Nhon, Vietnam, serving as a military policeman. He keeps telling himself he's a musician, not a killer, and that he's lucky he's not fighting on the front lines. When Captain orders him to form a rock band, it's up to Dean to find instruments and players, pronto. Ingenuity and perseverance pay off and soon the band is traveling through treacherous jungle terrain to perform for troops in desperate need of an escape—even if it's only for three sets. And for Dean—who lives with death, violence, and the fear that anyone could be a potential spy (even his Vietnamese girlfriend)—the band becomes the one thing that gets him through the day. During one of the most controversial wars in recent American history, this incredible true story is about music and camaraderie in the midst of chaos.
Author: Geoffrey Ward
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2020-03-24
Total Pages: 866
ISBN-13: 1984897748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Based on the celebrated PBS television series, the complete text of an engrossing history of America’s least-understood conflict, “a significant milestone [that] will no doubt do much to determine how the war is understood for years to come.” —The Washington Post More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its memory continues to loom large in the national psyche. In this intimate history, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns have crafted a fresh and insightful account of the long and brutal conflict that reunited Vietnam while dividing the United States as nothing else had since the Civil War. From the Gulf of Tonkin and the Tet Offensive to Hamburger Hill and the fall of Saigon, Ward and Burns trace the conflict that dogged three American presidents and their advisers. But most of the voices that echo from these pages belong to less exalted men and women—those who fought in the war as well as those who fought against it, both victims and victors—willing for the first time to share their memories of Vietnam as it really was. A magisterial tour de force, The Vietnam War is an engrossing history of America’s least-understood conflict.
Author: Jeanne Walker Harvey
Publisher: Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Published: 2017-05-02
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1250112494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The bold story of Maya Lin, the artist-architect who designed the Vietnam War Memorial"--
Author: Kristin Ann Hass
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0520920708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary Americans to come to terms with a multitude of unnamed losses as well as to take part in the ongoing debate of how this war should be remembered. Hass explores the restless memory of the Vietnam War and an American public still grappling with its commemoration. In doing so it considers the ways Americans have struggled to renegotiate the meanings of national identity, patriotism, community, and the place of the soldier, in the aftermath of a war that ruptured the ways in which all of these things have been traditionally defined. Hass contextualizes her study of this phenomenon within the history of American funerary traditions (in particular non-Anglo traditions in which material offerings are common), the history of war memorials, and the changing symbolic meaning of war. Her evocative analysis of the site itself illustrates and enriches her larger theses regarding the creation of public memory and the problem of remembering war and the resulting causalities—in this case not only 58,000 soldiers, but also conceptions of masculinity, patriotism, and working-class pride and idealism.
Author: Brent K. Ashabranner
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780590445900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on the work of Jan Scruggs, Vietnam vet, to get a memorial fund started.