Download or read book Surviving written by Phuc Duong and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving Combat Memories written by Russ Warriner and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2022-12-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After serving a 1 1⁄2 year tour in Vietnam with the 1st Cavalry Division and surviving a total of 8 years, 9 months and 21 Days in the US Army, Russ Warriner learned he had PTSD. Dealing with the Combat Memories he calls Combat Demons is a lifelong struggle. Writing about my combat life and the aftermath has become one of his outlets. Becoming a life member of many veteran groups as well as starting a group that served in my type of unit and starting a POW/MIA weekend event has served me well to deal with the demons. Everyone who has PTSD deals with these demons in their own way. If this book can help at least one person to understand PTSD or help them deal with their demons, I feel it was worth the effort I put into writing it.
Download or read book Surviving Vietnam written by Bruce P. Dohrenwend and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war in Vietnam is a watershed moment in United States history -- the first war lost by the U.S. despite its seemingly overwhelming military might. Surviving Vietnam focuses on the psychological consequences, especially posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of service in such a war for U.S. veterans. The diagnosis of PTSD, termed following and significantly influenced by this war, stirred controversy. Much of the initial controversy centered on a major report in 1990 of what numerous critics regarded as unrealistically high rates of this disorder in U.S. veterans. Controversy continues about whether exposure to one or more potentially traumatic events is more significant to the development and persistence of PTSD than pre-exposure personal vulnerability factors, such as age, education and prior psychiatric disorder. This book describes attempts to resolve these controversies. Surviving Vietnam develops a unique blend of historical material, military records, clinical diagnoses of PTSD, and interviews with representative samples of veterans surveyed approximately a decade (the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study) and nearly four decades (the National Vietnam Veterans Longitudinal Study) after the war's conclusion. The book begins with a history of the Vietnam war that provides context for the discussions of mental health thereafter, the outcomes of the severity of veterans' exposure to combat, their personal involvement in harm to civilians and prisoners, their race-ethnicity, and their military assignments. It discusses nurses' experiences in Vietnam and the psychological impact of veterans' chronic war-related PTSD on their families. Surviving Vietnam then examines factors affecting veterans' post-war readjustment, including the effects of changing public and veteran attitudes toward the war and the veterans' own appraisals of the impact of the war on their lives after the war. The authors conclude with a discussion of the policy implications of the research findings.
Download or read book Surviving Vietnam written by James Toscano and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Toscano was smart, talented, and the rock in his family. When he was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War at age twenty-two, he willingly accepted the request from Uncle Sam. After all, Jimmy, who was always up for a challenge, was full of life, drive, and a determination to make the world a better place. In a posthumous collection of poems, Jimmy leads others down a lyrical path through the experiences he endured during the Vietnam War as he fought alongside over two million other soldiers, and after as he returned to an unwelcoming America. Jimmys poems shine a light on the effects war has on a soldiers family, what it is like to stare death in the face, the brutality of combat, how the war transformed energetic young men into broken souls, and the challenges that accompanied their return home as they learned to battle a new enemy: the haunting memories of war. Surviving Vietnam shares poignant and candid poems from a war veteran that expose the realities of the battlefield and beyond.
Download or read book SURVIVING the VIETNAM WAR and ITS AFTERMATH written by Duong Duong Phuc and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - A riveting real-life story set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Vietnam War. - A vivid, sweeping memoir of a lifetime of love continuously tested yet strengthened through four decades of war and terror; a love which endured, survived and unequivocally triumphed - A rare, never-told-before, war account by in-the-trenches Vietnamese war correspondents. Authors Duong Phuc & Vu Thanh Thuy, in their own words:... "We began the first lines of this memoir in November 1979 on a police boat heading to Songkhla Refugee camp. We had just been rescued by a United Nations representative after 21 days in captivity by sea pirates on a deserted island in the Gulf of Thailand. ...We are reporters, not fiction writers. We simply want to honestly record the facts of what we heard and saw firsthand on the gruesome battlefront, in the communist re-education camps, and on the open sea. Sometimes the truth surpasses anything in the human imagination. We truthfully present everything-episodes of stark, unbearable terror along with strange, unbelievable turns of fortune; the worst of human flaws as well as acts of kindness suddenly performed by the most despicable of people-to balance fairly the good and bad that can be found in human beings. We attempt to declare the mystery of life and the human heart that gives birth to hope even when fortune and misfortune become unexpectedly mixed up and change places in an instant. ...Nearly forty years have passed from the day we first began writing in the notebook on the Gulf of Thailand. Our hair is gray now, but we finished the book at last." ------------"Sometimes the truth surpasses anything in the human imagination."------------- Upon arrival in the United States, the authors were interviewed, among many more, by Barbara Walters & Hugh Downs in "A Mission of Mercy", Oprah Winfrey brought the children on the show "The Dignity of Children" on NBC, etc. VU THANH THUY: Senior Fellow, American Leadership Forum - Thought Leader, Images & Voices of HopeBoard Member, American Red Cross, Board Member, New American Media, Board Member, IMD, Mission Member: Katrina Hurricane, Haiti Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Thailand Tsunami, Philippines Yolanda Typhoon, Cambodia child-sex mission. VT THUY AWARDS: Woman of the Year & Headliner, Woman of Achievement, Woman of Honor, Woman in Media Award, Entrepreneur of the Year, Woman of the 21st Century, We the People's Vision Award, Asian Business Leadership Award, Houston Women's Hall of Fame Induction, Lifetime Achievement - Asian-American Journalists Association, Vietnamese Americans of 25 years, Century Award Woman, and more.
Download or read book To Bear Any Burden written by Al Santoli and published by . This book was released on 1999-06-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To Bear Any Burden is necessary to understand the most significant aspect of the Indochina wars: the human one." —Tran Van Dinh, author of Blue Dragon White Tiger: A Tet Story "At least this reader would like to spend hours if not days talking to each of the people within these pages." —Jack Reynolds, Network Correspondent, NBC " . . . remarkable insight into the human aspect of the war." —Library Journal The 48 American and Asian veterans, refugees, and officials who speak in this book come from widely divergent backgrounds. In their narratives we hear them reliving crucial moments in the preparation, execution, and aftermath of war. It is a riveting, eyewitness account of the war and also reclaims from this tragic continuum larger patterns of courage and dedication.
Download or read book The War I Survived Was Vietnam written by Michael Uhl and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflections on the war, from his combat experiences to his exploration of American veteran identity to his struggles with PTSD. His career as an advocate for the welfare of GIs and veterans exposed to dangerous radiation and herbicides is covered. Several pieces deal with how the Vietnam experience is being archived by scholars for historical interpretation. These collected works serve as a study of how wars are remembered and written about by surviving veterans.
Download or read book In the Heart of the Jungle written by Lotus Tran and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir demonstrates what the Vietnam War did to Tran's family, her people, and her country.--From inside cover.
Download or read book Re membering and Surviving written by Shirley Ann James Hanshaw and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving Vietnam written by Bruce Philip Dohrenwend and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We Marched Through Hell written by Steven D Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is so much more to the Vietnam War than just the war itself. The Vietnam War was a complicated mixture of events and characters that eventually affected our lives, our country, and our history in a way that no other event could accomplish. When trying to understand the war, it is impossible to fully grasp the experience without an intimate or close up view of the war before, during, and after it was over. Books, articles, and speeches from an expert or historian can certainly provide the hearer with a snapshot of the Vietnam War experience from that person's perspective; however, there is no better resource about the war than hearing it directly from those who served there: the Vietnam War veterans. And that is the intent of this book. The vast majority of the information provided in this book comes from the mouths of those who were there. Those who were drafted or enlisted into a situation that ended up affecting their lives in unimaginable ways. When they first returned home from the war, the Vietnam War veterans were encouraged to not speak about their experiences, to keep their mouths shut and blend back into society, to not make any waves about their experiences in Vietnam and to try and forget the experience ever happened. Some tried that, but for many, their silence did not allow them to emotionally handle the impending effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). They needed to talk to someone about their experiences in order to understand their behaviors. But most didn't, and their silence only served to slow any progress to improving their emotional health that some were struggling with. In addition, their silence also resulted in a misinformed public. The public needed to hear their stories, rather than just hear the protesters' chanting or some politician's bloviating. So, the silence of these war veterans did not provide the other side of the story that many in our country had not yet heard. This book will provide stories, emotions, and experiences from the various stages young students from a rural high school found themselves in during the 1960s as they were getting close to graduation from high school and then staring at a war in their future. The book will also answer some questions such as: How did it feel getting drafted? Did you consider going to Canada? What was it like to see the words "colored only" and "whites only" above the doors in the South where you went for training? How emotional was it to leave your family when you flew to Vietnam? What was the flight like going to Vietnam? What was your first impression of Vietnam when your plane landed there? What was it like to experience combat? What was it like to experience a friend who had been killed, or for you to be injured? How did it feel coming home again? What were you thinking or feeling when you first heard the protesters at the airport? How did the war impact your family or friends? Are you still feeling the effects of the war with PTSD or rehabilitation from physical injuries you received in Vietnam? Has the war really ended for you? The Vietnam War veterans and their families and friends who were interviewed for this book were open about their feelings and experiences, and some of the answers to the questions above, and their explanations of what they experienced, may surprise you.
Download or read book War Trauma written by Susannah Pillers and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 15 out of every 100 Vietnam Veterans (or 15%) were currently diagnosed with PTSD at the time of the most recent study in the late 1980s, the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS). It is estimated that about 30 out of every 100 (or 30%) of Vietnam Veterans have had PTSD in their lifetime. From the author: "I've written four nonfiction books on PTSD, but this is my first fiction on the subject. I hope the reader gets a feel for what happens to some soldiers in combat and the aftermath that can follow them for decades after. I used a martial arts master to show that journey and its effects, even on a person who has developed a high level of discipline and mental mastery.
Download or read book History Of Vietnam War written by Jerry Sautter and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. In the United States, it polarized public opinion and changed foreign policy. More importantly, in Vietnam, as well as surrounding areas, it caused untold destruction, death, and suffering. Inside you will read about... -Vietnam's Past -Exit the French -The United States and Ngo Dinh Diem -The Resistance War Against America Begins -"Americanization" -The American Home Front -Vietnamization and President Nixon -The End of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
Download or read book The Other Side of Grief written by Maureen Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging critical assessment of the cultural impact of America's longest war. A volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War.
Download or read book Vietnam Shadows written by Arnold R. Isaacs and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than 20 years after the fall of Saigon, Vietnam still haunts us. It is the war that never seems to go away. Arnold Isaac's readable and insightful new book, Vietnam Shadows, is an effort to explore comprehensively the many facets of this phenomenon." -- Chicago Tribune
Download or read book Last Man Out written by James E. Parker and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Man Out is the remarkable story of Jim Parker, a former C.I.A. agent and the last man to leave Vietnam. The author explains how the agency worked behind the scenes to assist the military in the war. Last Man Out also explores the anti-war movement back home and its effect on how the war was conducted. Parker makes the point that the price paid in Vietnam ultimately caused the collapse of the Soviet Union, rid the country of Lyndon Johnson and enabled the U.S. to gain a foothold in China.
Download or read book Vietnam War Stories written by Tobey C. Herzog and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gulf War and its aftermath have testified once again to the significance placed on the meanings and images of Vietnam by US media and culture. Almost two decades after the end of hostilities, the Vietnam War remains a dominant moral, political and military touchstone in American cultural consciousness. Vietnam War Stories provides a comprehensive critical framework for understanding the Vietnam experience, Vietnam narratives and modern war literature. The narratives examined - personal accounts as well as novels - portray a soldier's and a country's journey from pre-war innocence, through battlefield experience and consideration, to a difficult post-war adjustment. Tobey Herzog places these narratives within the context of important cultural and literary themes, including inherent ironies of war, the "John Wayne syndrome" of pre-war innocence, and the "heavy Heart-of-Darkness trip" of the conflict itself.
