Download or read book Vietnam Forever in My Heart written by Sylvia Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopefully someday Vietnam will be free of human rights

Download or read book Shrapnel in the Heart written by Laura Palmer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988-11-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America's least popular war.

Download or read book Vietnam written by Roseanna Dakan Keller and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I went to Vietnam filled with a sense of excitement, wonder and purpose. I'd been trained to kill the enemy and survive and was sent into the jungles of Vietnam to perform. A perfectly honed machine, designed and trained to do a job automatically - but with no sense of how to deal with the guilt and trauma and the rage that now possessed me. Almost from the first day in Nam, the anthem of "going home" resonated within our minds and became the mantra for living in this hell-hole called Vietnam.So, after a year of fighting for survival you come home. Or do you? Because the home of your youthful mind no longer exists. It is long gone -forever dead. In its place is a mind in which now resides ghastly memories, irrational fears, self-annihilation, tremendous resentment and profound anger. The home of your mind becomes the worst place you've ever been. But you cannot leave it. Vietnam is now a part of you and its shadow surrounds all that you do and all that you are. The relationships with your wife and children are forever clouded by what impact Vietnam had. And you are left to wonder, what could have been if Vietnam had never occurred?

Download or read book Forever Sad the Hearts written by Patricia L. Walsh and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kate Shea works as a nurse in war-torn Viet Nam, she tries to hide from the war's horror in a love affair with a young soldier

Download or read book Fragments written by Bruce Berger and published by WordWorthyPress, LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Berger, the author, finally came home 50 years after the Vietnam war when his memories crystallized into the 34 poems in this chapbook. He shipped to Vietnam as an Infantryman in 1970 but was assigned most of the year to the Casualty Branch of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Eagle, near Phu Bai. As “next-of-kin” editor, he wrote hundreds of sympathy letters to grieving families back home for loss of their soldier, and sometimes helped gather fallen brothers on battle grounds to begin their long journeys home. Through this lens, his poems evoke an overwhelming sense of loss on many fronts: the brave American soldiers who gave their lives in the long war; a village of South Vietnamese widows; the thousands of bui doi, innocent but reviled half-breed (Amerasian) children; the empty afterness of battle grounds and burials; the long, deadly reach of Agent Orange and PTSD into veterans’ lives still today; and the thunderous silence of missing parades back home. Writing these poems brought him home. Many of the poems are illustrated with artwork created by members of the Providence Art Club in Rhode Island. All earnings from this book will be donated to the Vietnam Veterans of America. Book Review 1: "This is war as never seen before; raw feelings of senseless loss as never recorded before; a glimpse into the heart of a compassionate soldier, amidst the brutality of Vietnam, as never expressed before. Emotion jumps from its pages and sticks. A mosaic of war’s stark realities, then and now, stays with you long after the words sink in. You may put the book down, but you cannot escape its message. Regardless of who you are, this book will move you. For the veteran, expect a return to the killing fields in snatches of memories and rumblings of long-suppressed fear, anger, guilt and loss. For families of those lost during the war comes an understanding your grief does not go unnoticed and your eternal emptiness is understood and respected. And, for the uninitiated, who think of war in terms of a brief sound bite on the evening news—this is a hard life lesson: A single gunshot in a nameless piece of jungle can claim a life in a second and change countless other lives, half-way around the world, forever. Lastly, this is a courageous, deeply personal, discussion of inner battles many of us face. To many veterans, living with the war for decades after returning is so hard and so easily misunderstood. This book takes a giant step towards that understanding and awareness. All veterans will be better because of it.” -- Rick St. John, author of the acclaimed Circle of Helmets and Tiger Bravo’s War, and a retired U.S. Army Colonel who led a company of 101st Airborne Division paratroopers in heavy fighting in Vietnam. Book Review 2: “Fires in some men, like fires deep in forest roots, can burn for decades. Fragments paints such a fire in the metaphor of a journey for those who flew home but not home after a long, bloody, bitter war in Vietnam that often did not end with a warrior’s return to American soil. Berger’s pieces are like fragmentary grenades and flashbangs, images and lines that catch in your throat, stop your breath, blind you with tears. Like the image of a gravedigger back home whose ‘heart leaks into the grave’ he digs for his brother … Or the poem ‘66 Miles,’ the distance you get when you place 58,220 dead head-to-toe, head-to-toe, ‘the length of a trip from Nogales to Tucson, or Trenton to the Big Apple.’ Think about that … and then they came home to no parades, only pockets of seething scorn. Years later they hear the meaningless koan, ‘Thank you for your service.’ Welcome home, my friend, welcome home.” -- Joseph Heywood, author of more than 20 books and perhaps best known for the Woods Cop Mystery Series. He served five years in the Air Force as a navigator, spending 15 months in the Vietnam theater Book Review 3: "This is an important book. In a collection of poems he calls ‘fragments,’ Bruce K. Berger gives us an incisively moving—often heartbreaking—record of the Vietnam war, which left permanent scars on the minds and bodies of those who served and suffered there, then endured what Berger calls ‘the long coming home.’ The poems are vivid, unsentimental, sharply evocative of the places and the people—combatants and noncombatants on both sides, victims of the war’s horrors both in country and back home. This is an important book. You need to read it. Insistent, unforgettable, its poems will frag your heart.” -- Arnold Johnston, author of Where We’re Going, Where We’ve Been and The Witching Voice: A Novel from the Life of Robert Burns.

Download or read book Shrapnel in the Heart written by Laura Palmer and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America's least popular war. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Download or read book THE RAIN STILL FALLS IN SAIGON written by PHONG THU and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of stories that portray life as it is lived today under the shadow of the repressive and corrupt communist regime that now rules in Vietnam. The characters who live in these pages represent many levels of social class in the early 21st century in Vietnam.The stories illuminate the hardships and the soul-crushing routine of day-to-day life in a society governed by bullying bureaucrats and petty apparatchiks. The reader will meet orphaned children who wander the streets—selling newspapers or lottery tickets, collecting rubbish in exchange for a few spoonfuls of rice. There are stories of honest and patriotic intellectuals who have lost their way in a world that does not value their accomplishments. There are also sympathetic communists who now question their ideology and want to find a better way, but they cannot act for fear of economic hardship and even imprisonment. Another story addresses the issue of young women who have become victims of human trafficking, sold like cattle to rich foreigners. The title story, “The Rain still Falls in Saigon,” describes the return of an expatriate to her native land and her feelings of nostalgia and sadness as she surveys her homeland from an outsider’s perspective. All of the stories reflect the tears that the Vietnamese people have been crying for their country for more than 65 years.Doug BurkeEditor-at-large

Download or read book In the Lake of the Woods written by Tim O'Brien and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A politician’s past war crimes are revealed in this psychologically haunting novel by the National Book Award–winning author of The Things They Carried. Vietnam veteran John Wade is running for senate when long-hidden secrets about his involvement in wartime atrocities come to light. But the loss of his political fortunes is only the beginning of John’s downfall. A retreat with his wife, Kathy, to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota only exacerbates the tensions rising between them. Then, within days of their arrival, Kathy mysteriously vanishes into the watery wilderness. When a police search fails to locate her, suspicion falls on the disgraced politician with a violent past. But when John himself disappears, the questions mount—with no answers in sight. In this contemplative thriller, acclaimed author Tim O’Brien examines America’s legacy of violence and warfare and its lasting impact both at home and abroad.

Download or read book Once Upon a Mulberry Field written by C. L. Hoàng and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Connors, a widower with no children, is pondering whether to pursue aggressive treatment for his cancer when a cryptic note arrives from a long-lost USAF buddy announcing the visit of an acquaintance from Vietnam. Faced with ghosts of fallen comrades and haunting memories of the great love he once knew, Connors receives revelations from his visitor that uncover a missing part of his life. As he delves into a decades-old secret in search of answers and traces of a passion unfulfilled, on a journey from the jungles of Vietnam through the minefields of the heart, Connors is on a journey fraught with disillusionment and despair but ultimately redeemed by the power of love.

Download or read book My Vietnam War written by Dave Morgan and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Vietnam is Dave Morgans 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. Daves story focuses on his time as a soldier and his return psychologically exhausted to a divided nation.

Download or read book Vietnam Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vietnam Now written by David Lamb and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau and in the midst of a country on the move, as it progresses toward a free-market economy and divorces itself from the restrictive, isolationist policies established at the end of the war. This was a new country; in Vietnam, Now, David Lamb brings it--and us--forward from its dark, distant past. From the myriad personalities entwined in the dark, distant history of the war to those focused toward the future, Lamb reveals a rich and culturally diverse people as they share their memories of the country's past, and their hopes for a peacetime future. A portrait of a beautiful country and a remarkable, determined people, Vietnam, Now is a personal journey that will change the way we think of Vietnam, and perhaps the war as well.

Download or read book In Loving Memory Forever in Our Hearts written by Hansel Wright and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike and I were good friends during the Vietnam War. I was an Aircraft Commander and Pilot. Mike would meet me each day when I arrived back to base. An officer that did not like my dog killed Mike one day. Forty years later... Mike is "In Loving Memory Forever In Our Hearts" In Volume 2. For information contact: OS PUBLISHING, PO Box 1, Ludlow Falls, Ohio 45339 USA

Download or read book Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Forever Our Sunrise in Saigon written by Patrick Greenwood and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With echoes of Tom Clancy and Jack Higgins, Forever Our Sunrise in Saigon is Patrick Greenwood’s first book in a new series about romance, love, and passion against the backdrop of the Post- Vietnam War. Forever Our Sunrise in Saigon is a romance novel about Jack Kendall and Linh Ng. After connecting online, Jack sets out on a cycling tour of Vietnam to meet Linh while keeping his intentions hidden. They both choose to leave their current relationships and share an unforgettable romance. But like all good things, their time together is limited, and the sunrise in Saigon symbolizes their love that lasts a lifetime. Intrigued by the country of Vietnam since 11, Jack Kendall long remembered the fall of Saigon in 1975 and its painful aftermath. After years of chatting online, Jack desires to follow his heart to meet Linh in person. Linh, wanting to feel Jack’s love, wanted nothing more than to be held by him. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Linh agrees to meet Jack in Saigon. They both know they have found something special when they set eyes on each other. Despite their obstacles, they leap a faith and give their love a chance, even if it means giving up their current relationships. Experience the passion and romance that ignites between Jack and Linh as they explore Vietnam and each other. Follow their journey as they discover the true meaning of love and the courage it takes to pursue it. But like all good things, their time together is not forever. The sunrise in Saigon that brought them together becomes the emotional connection between them for the rest of their lives.

Download or read book Goodbye Vietnam written by William Broyles and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “essential” memoir, a former marine returns to Vietnam years later to try to make sense of the war (Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead). When William Broyles Jr. was drafted, he was a twenty-four-year-old student at Oxford University in England, hoping to avoid military service. During his physical exam, however, he realized that he couldn’t let social class or education give him special privileges. He joined the marines, and soon commanded an infantry platoon in the foothills near Da Nang. More than a decade later, Broyles found himself flooded with emotion during the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. He decided to return to Vietnam and confront what he’d been through. Broyles was one of the very first combat veterans to return to the battlefields. No American before or since has gone so deeply into the other side of the war: the enemy side. Broyles interviews dozens of Vietnamese, from the generals who ran the war to the men and women who fought it. He moves from the corridors of power in Hanoi—so low-tech that the plumbing didn’t work—to the jungles and rice paddies where he’d fought. He meets survivors of American B-52 strikes and My Lai, and grieves with a woman whose son was killed by his own platoon. Along the way, Broyles also explores the deep bonds he shared with his own comrades, and the mystery of why men love war even as they hate it. Amidst the landscape of death, his formerly faceless enemies come to life. They had once tried to kill each other, but they are all brothers now. Previously published as Brothers in Arms, this edition includes a new preface by the author.

Download or read book To Be a Single Father written by Charles Jones and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making of a Global Engineer: Philosophy and Practice interfaces Technology and Culture. With the operation of technology on a global scale comes the question of dealing with a global professional environment with its diverse languages, beliefs, educational, technical work environment and academic and corporate culture. This leads to the conclusion that technology and cross-cultural issues are intrinsically entwined in global engineering. The book explores the global engineering environment and the consequent need for the global engineer, possessing not only technical skills but language, cultural and international skills. It explores engineering educational models for integrating international education into the engineering curriculum, focuses on differences and commonality in Higher Educational system, examines cross-cultural issues related to crossing cultural boundaries and focuses on fundamental global skills an engineer must possess to be "a global engineer." It also provides a practical guide for administering international programs in engineering. The material is organized to give a direction; an educational path a reader can follow to become a global engineer. Making of a Global Engineer: Philosophy and Practice is a valuable educational tool for the global technical enterprise needed both by academia to train students and by industry for training engineers. The book acts as a guiding force as it answers the twin questions of "Why?" and "How?" related to global education.