My Vietnam War
My Vietnam War

Author: Dave Morgan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1922132780

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My Vietnam War is Dave Morgan's story. A typical 20 year old, he was forced into extraordinary circumstances in Vietnam. Far from his carefree youth, the Vietnam War would expose Dave to an atmosphere of ever-present danger and sheer terror that would impact him forever. His return to a divided Australia would isolate him further. During his service Dave wrote home to his mother from Vietnam tracking the days and the events. In 1992, after his mother passed away, he found all of his letters with his own recollections and diary entries, and the short stories of seven other veterans, to capture the unbelievable danger and horror that these young men experienced in Vietnam. He also describes how Vietnam established life-long feelings of intense loyalty, trust and mateship between the men that served there. Dave's story focuses on his time as a soldier and his return psychologically exhausted to a divided nation.

My Vietnam War
My Vietnam War

Author: E.E. "Doc" Murdock

Publisher: H.O.T. Press Publishing

Published: 2013-08-12

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0923178236

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Writers have been writing about war since the siege of Troy, but few, if any, have captured the first-person experience of war as deeply as My Vietnam War. Set in 1967 (the deadliest year of the Vietnam War), this memoir-style novel depicts the psychological journey of a young man whose carefree days of studying philosophy at the university are ended by the draft. The story follows him from his initial rear-echelon assignment in Saigon, where he falls for a mysterious storytelling bar girl, to his eventual posting at an isolated front-line firebase in one of the deepest parts of the Vietnam jungle. While recovering from a leg wound (he is hit by a piece of bone from a fellow soldier who stepped on a booby trap mine), he becomes the assistant medic and sees the horrors of war close up. The experience begins his steady spiral down into PTSD. After he is seriously wounded, he ends up back in Saigon where, after an old friend from Arizona gets him involved in the underground drug trade, the mysterious bar girl may be his only hope for salvation. It is a powerful story, well-written, with vivid detail that you will never forget.

Your War, My War
Your War, My War

Author: Donald F. Myers

Publisher: Pentland Press (NC)

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781571971876

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The author presents short newspaper articles concerning the war in Vietnam along with writings of his memories of sixteen months of an extended Vietnam tour with the Marines.

My Lai
My Lai

Author: William Thomas Allison

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1421406446

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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.

My Brother's War
My Brother's War

Author: Jessica Hines

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781911306672

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My Brother's War tells the story of a soldier, Gary Hines, and his younger sister's search to understand the circumstances surrounding his life with Post Traumatic Stress - and his untimely death by his own hand ten years after returning home from war.

Our War
Our War

Author: David Harris

Publisher: Crown

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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David Harris was the most famous draft resister of the Vietnam War. A former student body president of Stanford University, he refused to accept induction and be sent to Vietnam. As a consequence, he spent nearly two years in a federal prison. With his marriage to Joan Baez, he emerged as the leading moral voice of his generation. For the past two decades, he has largely remained silent as the antiwar movement he led stood accused by critics and politicians of everything from cowardice to stab-in-the-back betrayal to frivolity. Now, in Our War, he speaks out in defense of a generation torn by one of the more divisive wars in America's history. Neither a history nor an autobiography, though containing aspects of both. Our War is a compelling, even fevered account of stalking the war's moral shadow through the decades since its ignominious end. It is a powerful rumination on the war, the protest movement, and America's need, even now, so many years later, for a reckoning. Our War is a one-of-a-kind look at who we were, what we did, why we did it, and what those actions made of us, seen through the eyes of a unique and significant American figure and one of our most gifted writers. Part memoir, part polemic, all passion. Our War is a disturbing book, a cry from the heart of an anguished American.

Snafu: My Vietnam Vacation of 1969
Snafu: My Vietnam Vacation of 1969

Author: Tom Haines

Publisher: Spark Publications

Published: 2019-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781943070558

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In the spring of 1967, Tom Haines received his bachelor's degree in one hand and his draft notice in the other. With a wicked sense of humor and appreciation for the absurd, SNAFU: My Vietnam Vacation of 1969 chronicles his journey from basic infantry training at Fort Dix to joining Remington's Raiders in Pleiku and An Khe, Vietnam.

My Vietnam
My Vietnam

Author: Charlotte Stemple

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2010-09

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1609578147

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My Vietnam chronicles the experiences of the Stemple family working with the Vietnamese in central Vietnam amidst the turmoil of the war years during the 1960s and 1970s. These incredible stories dramatically illustrate the triumphs and heart-break of life in war-torn Vietnam in a way not yet fully seen or explored. Ravi Zacharias, author and speaker "Charlotte not only offers her readers rich cultural insight but also marvelous instances in which only God in his sovereignty could weave the threads of hope and healing." Dr. Gary Benedict, President, The Christian and Missionary Alliance "...Charlotte is a master story teller!" Dr. Marvin Eyler, Former Chaplain, First Marine Division, Danang 1970-71 "Charlotte Stemple's exciting and informative new memoir is compelling reading. I recommend this captivating book to lay persons, to mission historians, and to military veterans." Peter Burgo, Editor, Alliance Life (alife) Magazine "I have met few storytellers as poignant and compelling as Charlotte Stemple. Be forewarned: unless you're willing to endure some serious eyestrain, DON'T PICK UP THIS BOOK-because you won't want to put it back down." Charlotte Stemple is a communicator who has spoken and traveled across the U.S. and in 50 countries. She is a nurse, wife, mother of two, and grandmother of four. She formerly served as the national Director for church women's ministries for the Christian & Missionary Alliance, of which she is currently on the Board of Directors. In 2000, she received an honorary Doctorate from Nyack College, her alma mater. She and Woody live in Shell Point Retirement Community in Fort Myers, FL in the winter months and Beulah Beach (Vermilion) Ohio in summer. Her current passions include her family, leading short-term mission tours, mobilizing people for service in everyday life, mentoring young women, and sharing her story.

My Vietnam
My Vietnam

Author: Ed Kugler

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-07-25

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1435725786

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My Vietnam is a one of a kind look at the Vietnam War. In a small high school in Montana, a project was begun over a decade ago. One teacher at Frenchtown High School and two veterans started what is now the Frenchtown Vietnam Symposium. There is a history class on the Vietnam War and each year in May the seniors in the class host the Symposium. They invite up to forty Vietnam War vet's to come and discuss the war, their role in it, and they are honored by the students.My Vietnam is a book featuring thirteen Montana veterans telling what 'their' Vietnam was like. What makes it one of a kind is that these vet's are from all services, many military occupations from Marine sniper to fighter pilot, grunts and artillerymen. They cover many years of the war and they answer twenty-six of the most commonly asked questions by the students each year.My Vietnam is very special, heart warming and healing for all. You won't want to miss this special look at the war that shook our nation to its core.

The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War

Author: Edward Miller

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-01-19

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1405196777

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The Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primary documents related to America’s conflict in Vietnam which includes a balance of original American and Vietnamese perspectives, providing a uniquely varied range of insights into both American and Vietnamese experiences. Includes substantial non-American content, including many original English translations of Vietnamese-authored texts which showcase the diversity and complexity of Vietnamese experiences during the war Contains original American documents germane to the continuing debates about the causes, consequences and morality of the US intervention Incorporates personal histories of individual Americans and Vietnamese Introductory headnotes place each document in context Features a range of non-textual documents, including iconic photographs and political cartoons