Try To Remember Vietnam
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Try To Remember Vietnam
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Author : John R. Hodgson
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2010-06-11
Try To Remember Vietnam written by John R. Hodgson and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-11 with Fiction categories.
Over two and a half million Americans served in the Vietnam War. Of those who served, 58,148 gave their lives. Tyler Taylor is a complex and angry young man who drops out of college after he is kicked off the USC football team. His life is falling apart, his parents are separated, and he is in pain and has lost interest in nearly everything. Almost immediately, though, he is drafted into the army. Once in the army, he begins to see his life in a new light, particularly after experiencing the horrors of combat in the Vietnam War. Tyler and his two friends, John Raab and Mike Petrov, go from basic training to medical studies and into the airborne. Each of them comes from a different background, but they form a friendship that is united by their shared experience of war. They quickly learn how to be soldiers and in the process discover their own identities. His transformation from a troubled, angry youth continues when he meets Maggie in Australia while on R&R. Now all he has to do survive the jungles of the Vietnam War, so that he can return to the love that he has been missing in his life.
My Lai
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Author : William Thomas Allison
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2012-10-01
My Lai written by William Thomas Allison and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with History categories.
Allison tells the story of a terrible moment in American history and explores how to deal with the aftermath. On March 16, 1968, American soldiers killed as many as five hundred Vietnamese men, women, and children in a village near the South China Sea. In My Lai William Thomas Allison explores and evaluates the significance of this horrific event. How could such a thing have happened? Who (or what) should be held accountable? How do we remember this atrocity and try to apply its lessons, if any? My Lai has fixed the attention of Americans of various political stripes for more than forty years. The breadth of writing on the massacre, from news reports to scholarly accounts, highlights the difficulty of establishing fact and motive in an incident during which confusion, prejudice, and self-preservation overwhelmed the troops. Son of a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War—and aware that the generation who lived through the incident is aging—Allison seeks to ensure that our collective memory of this shameful episode does not fade. Well written and accessible, Allison’s book provides a clear narrative of this historic moment and offers suggestions for how to come to terms with its aftermath.
What I Remember Of Vietnam I Tried To Forget
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Author : Art MuñOz
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2007-04-09
What I Remember Of Vietnam I Tried To Forget written by Art MuñOz and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is about, what I REMEMBER OF MY TIME IN VIETNAM, that I tried to forget. These stories are things that stuck in my head, they come back in dreams. Da'jua'vu or flash backs. That's why, there's not much of a beginning, or full ending, to these memories. These are true stories of my experiences in Vietnam, things a lot of people don't want to hear, or know about, because the U.S.A. (or we don't do that) but they happened. I want people to know about this WAR, as most of us Vets knew it, so when our men come back from Iraq, they won't be judged and treated like us, the Vietnam VETS. War is HELL! If you weren't in one, thank GOD you weren't, and let GOD do the judging.
Farewell Vietnam A Time To Remember
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017
Farewell Vietnam A Time To Remember written by and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Physicians categories.
In 1954, Vietnam was split into two parts: The North under the Communist regime, The South the Free world. Joseph left North Vietnam with his parents and siblings in the Great Vietnamese Exodus for the South. As an eight-year-old boy, knowing nothing about politics, he trusted totally in his parents' decision.They resettled in the South and enjoyed a peaceful life. Unfortunately, it did not last long. The war erupted a few years after when the North formed the New Front and started the bloodshed, this time between brothers, sisters of the same motherland. Their goal was to put the entire country under the communist regime. As a student living in the capital, Joseph did not know much about the war until July 1972, when he graduated, the war reached its peak. Assigned to be the leader of a field surgical team providing services to the military units close to the Demilitarized Zone, Joseph had the opportunity to witness with his own eyes the horrendous damages the war had done to the soldiers: "Every day, flight after flight poured down the newly recruited soldiers to this airport. They were from 17 or 18 years old, voluntarily registered into these elite units..........The airplanes brought them to this airport. Cars after cars were waiting at the airport, ready to take them straight to the front line. It was so heartbreaking to see them leaving the airport on those GMCs, heading to the burning front line.""Only a hundred feet away from the place they took off, in a big tin-roofed warehouse, many of their fellow combatants were laid down in the coffins, wrapped in the national flag, rows after rows, until there was no more room for them. No matter how old they were, and what unit they belonged, they all laid down here and waited day after day. They waited for their flights home." (Farewell Vietnam).March 1975, pushing its army through the DMZ, the North invaded and finally took over The South on April 30, 1975. The gunshots stopped, the bloodshed ceased, but real peace never happened. Joseph and the people in the South faced a hostile and revengeful policy. Its officers and employees were sent to the re-education camps for forced labors. Their properties were confiscated, their families were sent to the jungles for what called the new economic zones. "My screaming in the middle of the night awakened everybody. Some minutes after, the entire medical staff rushed to our rescue. But as soon as they reached the doorway, they were totally immobilized like the stone statues, stunned at seeing the spectacle that was so horrible to the point that no one dared to move." retold in Farewell Vietnam about a depressed and ill POW, who had tried a suicide attempt by hanging himself. Suffering atrocities and vicious policies implemented by the cruel Northern victors, people started to flee out of the country by boat. This created "The Second Vietnamese Exodus", which brought almost a million Vietnamese to all over the world, besides hundreds of thousands died of starving, drown, raped or killed in the ocean. "The heat and the odor coming from human bodies, the sweat, soiled clothes that had not been washed for weeks, the odor of urine, all combined to create a very disgusting odor that made me feel nausea. .....the really small size of the cell, fifteen feet long by ten feet wide contained more than thirty people." (Prison under the police system).Farewell Vietnam shows readers the true communist heaven, where there's not enough food to eat, no medicine to take and no proper clothing to wear. The war brought both sides pain, bloodshed with millions of deaths, and many more cripples. When it stopped, the communist's arrogance and ignorance transformed the whole country into a big prison, where no one had a decent human life.Joseph had to say Farewell to his Motherland and left Vietnam not with his parents and siblings like in1954, but this time with his own family to a country, chosen to be their new homeland with unforgettable memories....
They Wouldn T Let Us Win
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Author : Ronald H. Dykes
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2012-09-04
They Wouldn T Let Us Win written by Ronald H. Dykes and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-04 with History categories.
For They Wouldnt Let Us Win, Ronald H Dykes did in-depth interviews with fifteen Vietnam veterans from Jackson County, Alabama. In these interviews, the veterans graphically describe the extraordinarily difficult experiences they endured during their tour of duty. Most of them were teenagers who had little idea of where Vietnam was or what the war was about. Yet, they did serve, follow orders, and try to stay alive. When they returned to the United States, though, some of them were greeted with curses and spittle. Perhaps even worse, their peers at home seemed uninterested in their experiences in Vietnam. Despite the horrors of the war and their reception back in their country, most of them do not regret serving in Vietnam. They do regret, however, that the politicians would not let us win. Dykes thesis in this book is that readers like himself who were opposed to the war will be convinced that these veterans got a raw deal when they returned home.
Try To Remember
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Author : Iris Gomez
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2010-05-05
Try To Remember written by Iris Gomez and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-05 with Fiction categories.
An award-winning poet and expert in US immigration and asylum law delivers a powerful novel about a daughter's attempt to sustain her family as her father struggles with his mental health. "Lyrical, poignant, and smart, as compassionate and hopeful as it is heartbreaking...a novel you will never forget." -- Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us If she tries, Gabriela can almost remember when her father went off to work . . . when her mother wasn't struggling to undo the damage he caused . . . when a short temper didn't lead to physical violence. But Gabi cannot live in the past, not when one more outburst could jeopardize her family's future. So she trades the life of a normal Miami teenager for a career of carefully managing her father's delusions and guarding her mother's secrets. As Gabi navigates her family's twisting path of lies and revelations, relationships and loss, she finds moments of happiness in unexpected places. Ultimately Gabi must discover the strength she needs to choose what's right for her: serving her parents or a future of her own.
Stars And Stripes And Shadows
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Author : Tim Haslam
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2007-01-09
Stars And Stripes And Shadows written by Tim Haslam and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-09 with History categories.
1968 for me was not simply the year I found myself away from home for the first time. It was not just the year I donned the uniform of a soldier and took up arms against communist aggression, traveling to the jungles of Southeast Asia to do my patriotic duty. To characterize that year merely as my coming of age fails to recognize the significance of the year itself. Few intervals of similar duration in the history of our nation have been as important as those twelve months. Perhaps only 1776 surpasses 1968 in its impact on who and what we as a nation will become thereafter. The eras of the Civil War and the two World Wars, although of equal or greater significance unfolded over longer spans of time, each more gradually evolving the beliefs and practices of American citizens. 1968 seems to have struck with impatient tenacity, delivering to the United States of America a wake up call from our cultural complacency and the natural acceptance of our assumed righteousness. 1968 began the polarization of America. Neutrality of belief or philosophy was no longer to be valued or even tolerated. The lines were being drawn; lines between left and right; between the old and the new, between generations and perhaps even between clarity and confusion. What we were as a people, who we were and what we stood for was cast in 1968 under the unflattering spotlight of war and internal conflict as a reaction to that war. College students, the children of World War II veterans, raised their voices in opposition to the edicts of the American Government. Extremists took matters into their own hands and murdered Martin Luther King Junior and Robert Kennedy. American soldiers committed atrocities at My Lai that shocked a citizenry unable to accept this dissonant view of Americans in uniform and our military and governmental leaders threw up their hands behind closed doors, coming to the same conclusion; we can’t win this war. On the home front popular music transitioned away from the malt-shop themes of the fifties and early sixties and became a vehicle for conveying political messages, for drawing young people away from the dreamy and into the heuristic. Being twenty-one in America in 1968 was different than being twenty-one in America in 1967 or any time before. American soldiers in Vietnam in 1968 were caught in a vortex of three worlds; the remembered world they left back home, the real world of violent struggles within the jungles, villages and rice paddies of South Vietnam and the rapidly transitioning world of the United States of America, nine-thousand miles away. This is the story of one twenty-one year old American caught in that vortex.
Voices Of The Vietnam Pows
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Author : Craig Howes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1993
Voices Of The Vietnam Pows written by Craig Howes and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Electronic books categories.
Contains primary source material.
An American Town And The Vietnam War
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Author : Tony Pavia
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-10-02
An American Town And The Vietnam War written by Tony Pavia and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-02 with History categories.
Hundreds of young Americans from the town of Stamford, Connecticut, fought in the Vietnam War. These men and women came from all corners of the town. They were white and black, poor and wealthy. Some had not finished high school; others had graduate degrees. They served as grunts and helicopter pilots, battlefield surgeons and nurses, combat engineers and mine sweepers. Greeted with indifference and sometimes hostility upon their return home, Stamford’s veterans learned to suppress their memories in a nation fraught with political, economic and racial tensions. Now in their late 60s and 70s, these veterans have begun to tell their stories.
Borrowed Time
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Author : Charles M. Kinney
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Borrowed Time written by Charles M. Kinney and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
After LZ X-Ray and Albany came LZ-4, Operation Masher/White Wing, Operation Davy Crocket, and a place called Tuy Hoa. The gripping memoir of a medic with the renowned 7th Cavalry.