Dear Mom And Dad Love From Vietnam
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Dear Mom And Dad Love From Vietnam
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Author : Joe Abodeely
language : en
Publisher: Desert Bugle Press
Release Date : 2014-03
Dear Mom And Dad Love From Vietnam written by Joe Abodeely and has been published by Desert Bugle Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
1st Air Cavalry Lieutenant Joe Abodeely shipped off to Vietnam at the beginning and height of the Tet Offensive in January 1968. He kept a diary and wrote letters home recounting his experiences in real time about the patrols, the combat air assaults, the discomfort, the anxiety, the elation during major military operations, and his experiences with the Vietnamese people. The year-1968-was one of the most volatile years in Vietnam. It was an interesting year, a year of idealism, a year of protest, a year of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll-the bloodiest year of the war. In the U.S., antiwar protests raged; there was rioting at the Democratic National Convention; the Women's Liberation Movement progressed; the Civil Rights Movement was in full force; and Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. Young men waited with great anxiety for announcements from the lottery. Some got drafted or enlisted. Others protested against the war, burned their draft cards, or ran off to Canada. Two-thirds of those who served in Vietnam enlisted; one-third was drafted. The NVA were great fighters. They fought the Japanese, later the French, and now the Americans. But the U.S. soldiers were better. It is a truism that the U.S. won nearly 100% of their actions in combat and controlled the areas they chose to control. "Dear Mom and Dad, Love From Vietnam," will allow you to experience the Vietnam War from the eyes of someone who lived through it and recorded actions and events in real time in a year-long diary and in over 50 letters. Abodeely went to Vietnam to help the South Vietnamese people fight the Communist invasion from North Vietnam and Communist Vietcong insurgents. He writes: "There is no 'one' Vietnam experience-there are as many as there are those who went to Vietnam-but this is mine-the combat, the excitement, the discomfort, the fear, the accomplishments, the hubris, the politics, the challenges, and the sex. This is 1968-MY Vietnam experience. "The Vietnam War was just, legal, and truly to defend the freedom of the South Vietnamese. The American military won the Tet Offensive in 1968; brought the war to a successful end in January 1973; and left Vietnam promising to logistically support the South Vietnamese if the North invaded again. Watergate occurred; a newly elected Democrat Congress ended all funding to South Vietnam. The Communist North invaded and took over South Vietnam. These are facts. "Those who say they care about veterans should speak out and show their appreciation for the service of our nation's largest group of living veterans-Vietnam veterans. I have a personal mission to educate everyone about the Vietnam War-its history, its reasons, its battles, its soldiers' heroism and accomplishments, its politics, and the shameful conduct of those who maligned an entire generation who honorably served their country." "Dear Mom and Dad, Love From Vietnam" is a must-read for anyone interested in a true, on the spot account of action and experience of a 1st Air Cavalry combat unit commander in the Vietnam War.
Dear Mom Dad
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Author : Barry Bongberg
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-02-02
Dear Mom Dad written by Barry Bongberg and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-02 with categories.
For over 50 years, a box sat unopened and collecting dust in Barry Bongberg's closet. Painstakingly preserved by his mother five decades earlier, the box contained nearly 300 letters home during his time in Vietnam. In 2020, Barry opened the box. Six months after his graduation from high school in California, Barry Bongberg was one of 2.2 million men drafted into the Vietnam War between the years of 1964 and 1973. His letters home to his parents span the entirety of his service and take the reader on a rollercoaster of emotions through his tour - the fear, the hopes and dreams, the romantic interests at home and abroad, and the loss of his comrades. "This is an historically accurate account of the pure hell our soldiers went through as they fought an enemy they did not know; in a land they were not familiar with; and for the most part, a cause they did not understand." - Charles Hildebrand "Ugliness was everywhere. Guns and bombs, blood and noise, and constant fear that kept this nervous kid up all night and scared all day. So he began writing letters to his parents. He started writing the first day he was in Nam and didn't stop until his last day. These letters home tell the tale of one young man's experience in hell." -Phillip Reeder This book is the contents of that dusty box: 288 unedited letters home during his 23 months in Vietnam, along with an insightful forward and epilogue by the author.
To Vietnam And Back 1967 1968
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Author : Dolores Cook Raisch
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2022-10-03
To Vietnam And Back 1967 1968 written by Dolores Cook Raisch and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The war in Vietnam was a turbulent time in our nation’s history that stirred strong feelings and deep emotions as America changed in ways that could not have been anticipated or avoided. To Vietnam and Back is an intimate family memoir that, through a lifeline of letters, offers a unique and warmly told story about one soldier’s year in Vietnam and one family anxiously awaiting his return. Readers will take a step back in time to a pivotal period of the Vietnam War, 1967-1968, and glimpse what it was like to not only leave home for the uncertainty of an increasingly controversial conflict, but also to be the parents, siblings and friends left at home to provide support the only way they knew how... through heartfelt words of everyday life. The pages are filled with emotion, humor, family and neighborhood news, while also depicting the uncertainty, fear and division caused by the war in Vietnam. It is a year of back and forth letters that brought encouragement and hope to the writers and recipients of those letters. In essence, To Vietnam and Back is a journey of the written kind that revisits and illustrates the timeless value of family, friends, faith and love.
Dear Mom
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Author : Joseph T. Ward
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2010-12-29
Dear Mom written by Joseph T. Ward and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-29 with History categories.
In Vietnam's jungle war, only one group of men was feared more than death itself—the Marine Scout Snipers. . . . The U.S. Marine Scout Snipers were among the most highly trained soldiers in Vietnam. With their unparalleled skill, freedom of movement, and deadly accurate long-range Remington 700 bolt rifles, the Scout Snipers were sought after by every Marine unit—and so feared by the enemy that the VC bounty on the Scout Snipers was higher than on any other elite American unit. Joseph Ward's letters home reveal a side of war seldom seen. Whether under nightly mortar attack in An Hoa, with a Marine company in the bullet-scarred jungle, on secret missions to Laos, or on dangerous two-man hunter-kills, Ward lived the war in a way few men did. And he fought the enemy as few men did—up close and personal.
Fort Chastity Vietnam 1969
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Author : Bernadette J. Harrod RN
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2015-10-07
Fort Chastity Vietnam 1969 written by Bernadette J. Harrod RN and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It was 1969 and the war in Vietnam was at its height. At the time, author Bernadette J. Harrod was twenty-four years old and a full-fledged operating room nurse. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy, she volunteered her services and became a member of the Army Nurse Corps stationed on the front lines at Phu Bai, Vietnam, a forward base camp in the demilitarized zone. In Fort Chastity, Vietnam, 1969, she shares her story of what nursing was like in a combat zone, standing covered in mud and blood, sweat and tears, serving her country in a war-torn jungle far away from home. Harrod describes working twelve-hour days, six days a weekmore when there was a pushoperating on wounded soldiers who had suffered massive injuries. Saving life and limb was the prime mission of the operating room nurses. Harrod tells how she was ill prepared to handle the horror all around her. After fourteen months in a blood bath of hell, now considered a combat veteran, she was sent home. With poetry and letters written to home included, Fort Chastity, Vietnam, 1969, offers a firsthand look at the war and its aftereffects from the perspective of both a nurse and a woman caught in the trauma of war.
Coming All The Way Home
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Author : Fred McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-07-16
Coming All The Way Home written by Fred McCarthy and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-16 with History categories.
In 1968, twenty-one-year-old Fred McCarthy transitioned from the monastic life of a seminary student to that of a U.S. Army helicopter gunship commander in Vietnam. Despite preparation from a family tradition of decorated combat service, a strong sense of patriotism, a love for aviation, and a desire for adventure, he got far more than he bargained for. Written after 50 years of reflection, reading, and study, this memoir tells both a universal story about war, adventure, and perseverance and, also shares the intensely personal experience of the Vietnam War and its legacy for those who fought in it. McCarthy describes many of his missions, reflects on the nature of being a combat helicopter pilot, and processes the experience through his poetry, letters home, and reflective analysis.
Voices From Vietnam
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Author : Michael E. Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Release Date : 2014-05-20
Voices From Vietnam written by Michael E. Stevens and has been published by Wisconsin Historical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-20 with History categories.
An unforgettable collection of 174 letters and diary entries written by 92 wisconsin men and women who served in Vietnam. Includes a journal kept by Menasha native Frederic Flom on cigarette wrappers during his final 16 days of captivity — the only known diary smuggled out by a Vietnam prisoner of war.
Dear Mom And Dad
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2009-02-28
Dear Mom And Dad written by Anonymous and has been published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-28 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In this treasure of a book, a child shares a more profound understanding of the most enduring and sometimes toughest aspects of child-rearing. Filled with wise anecdotes that will strike a chord with all parents, this keepsake book is an inspirational instructional guide that shows mothers and fathers how much children need them to be patient, understanding, and most of all, loving role models. Dear Mom and Dad? is an ideal gift book parents and children can learn from and share together time and again.
When We Were Hit By The Wind
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Author : Margaret V Fast
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2021-03-16
When We Were Hit By The Wind written by Margaret V Fast and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
VIETNAM. In the western world, the name itself conjures up specific images and feelings: oppressive jungle heat; young, battle-weary soldiers far from home; political upheaval at home and abroad ... We feel the fear and sadness and anger that always accompany thoughts of war. But Vietnam is so much more than that. One of the oldest cultures in Southeast Asia, with a wide variety of ethnicities, languages, and traditions, the real Vietnam and its people have been largely overlooked or misrepresented in mainstream media. A young Canadian doctor, volunteering in a Mennonite Central Committee hospital in Pleiku and at a Project Concern hospital in the remote village of DaMpao, in the early 1970s, got to know the country and its people very well. When We Were Hit by the Wind is a collection of her memories and experiences, shared largely via personal letters written to her family back in Canada. Follow her journey of discovery, empathy, responsibility, war, and love, as it changes not only her perspective of the country forever but her life as well.
Eleven Miles South Of Half Moon Bay
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Author : Bill Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2000-07-14
Eleven Miles South Of Half Moon Bay written by Bill Sullivan and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-14 with Family & Relationships categories.
Eleven Miles South of Half Moon Bay is a shout of joy and a howl of grief. It is a single golden instant and all eternity. It is a story mundane as boys playing marbles yet vast as life and death. It is the story of two free spirits: cousins for a mortal moment, brothers forever.