Found insideThe purpose of the book is to be historically significant to future researchers. The history of the military women in Vietnam began in 1962 with Army Major Anne Marie Doering. She was born in what became North Vietnam. This book tells the story of a remarkable memorial to American Vietnam War veterans and the equally remarkable family that build it--without any assistance or recognition from the federal government. Found insideUsing themes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology, Uwe Siemon-Netto explores the veterans' situation and argues for God's acquittal of the charge of abandoning the veterans during and after the war. The Campaign for a Landmine Free World is an effort by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) in Washington, D.C. to address the global land mine crisis. Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure comprehensively examines whether Vietnam veterans in the Blue Water Navy experienced exposures to herbicides and their contaminants by reviewing historical reports, relevant ... Found insideVoices from the Vietnam War: Stories from American, Asian, and Russian Veterans brings together the accounts of soldiers, spies, and medical workers who experienced firsthand the years of conflict in Vietnam. For more than seven years a team of researchers, editors, and writers compiled the 25-volume source history of the Vietnam War. Retired physician Addison Wolfe is amazed to read the name Jimmy Byrnes in the newspaper. This 2-volume set serves as a reference for anyone seeking to understand the struggle of veterans both historically and in the present day. "A study of American attempts to come to terms with the legacy of the Vietnam War, this book highlights the central role played by Vietnam veterans in shaping public memory of the war. "I owe my life to the American who gave me his. I love him no less than my birth father. Every five years, I try to go to the Vietnam Wall in Washington. This is my pilgrimage. I do it for those who gave their lives for me. Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War is a landmark study of the cultural heritage of the war in Vietnam as presented through the experience of its American participants. A Vietnam veteran who lost both legs and a hand in the Vietnam War recounts his homecoming and his attempts to come to terms with his life. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange—the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange—tells this young vet’s story and that of hundreds of thousands of other former American servicemen. Collects five stories and the novel "The Moral Life of Soldiers," in which a retired North Vietnamese soldier recalls his life working in the U.S. Special Forces in Latin America before taking up arms against them years later. The author of We Wrecked the Place chronicles the moving and startling tale of twenty Vietnam veterans who have remained or returned to Southeast Asia to live amid the battlefields of their youth, seeking redemption and refusing to return ... In his balanced and highly readable account, Vietnam Veterans since the War, sociologist Wilbur J. Scott tells the story of how the veterans and their allies organized to articulate their concerns and to win concessions from a reluctant ... An indispensable handbook for Vietnam veterans encompasses valuable information on pension rights, compensation, medical services, education and rehabilitation, and many other relief, readjustment, and reinforcement services A 40-year retrospective includes more than 1,800 carefully selected strips of the popular newspaper comic, interspersed with essays by the author in which he reflects on the characters, in a compendium that includes a four-page foldout that ... A poignant tale of a young man's search for self after Vietnam and the healing power of art and love in the aftermath. 100% of all proceeds from sales of this work support The War Writers' Campaign and best-in-class programs for veterans ... In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the ... Arcadio Polanco, a native of Panama and resident alien, turns 19 and soon afterwards receives a draft notice. The Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF), based in Washington, D.C., is an international humanitarian organization. Found insideIncluded in the book are the 'sociological stories' of protests against the war in Operations RAW and Dewey Canyon III: the successful effort to place post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Third ... This book is a comprehensive study of the content, author demographics, publishing history, and media representation of the most prominent Vietnam veteran memoirs published between 1967 and 2005. In this startling book, Jerry Lembcke demonstrates that not a single incident of this sort has been convincingly documented. Training Manual for Chaplains These essays explore the fallacies of history, the madness of war, the craft of poetry, the profession of teaching, and the art of living. 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