Download or read book Vietnam Remembered Today written by MR Mark William Shaughnessy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam Remembered Today is a compare and contrast story of brothers in Vietnam at the same time with dramatically different experiences and outcomes. Mark was in a support function while Don was in the jungle fighting the enemy until injured. We describe what many encountered during the Vietnam Conflict. This memoir will resonate with others who cannot tell their story but want others to know what they endured, and it provides a broader perspective for those who were not there. The background on the Vietnam War (not officially declared) reviews the critical battles and events that shaped the military and political strategies. It provides an in-depth look at Vietnam; before, during and after the tour of brothers was completed. Our book includes the history of the Vietnam Conflict from 1950-75 and highlights the critical battles and events that shaped the military and political strategies including: Ia Drang Valley (LZ-X-Ray), Siege at Khe Sanh, Tet Offensive, My Lai murders, bombing of Cambodia and the Kent State shootings. There were 27 million men eligible for the draft in that era. Nine million served in the military and only three million served in Southeast Asia. Our stories describe what many encountered during the Vietnam Conflict and represent many of the 2.6 who served in Vietnam. This memoir provides a broader perspective for those who were not there and want to know about that era. Interestingly, many women have purchased the book as they want to know what their brothers, uncles and fathers faced. Our narrative is dedicated to those who fought in Vietnam and to the family members who still care for those seriously wounded. And, we believe those of that era who did not serve in Vietnam will gain a perspective on the conflict and that time period. More than 58,000 American soldiers died in Vietnam, 75,000 were permanently disabled, and another 80,000 were seriously wounded. This story explains why this happened. May they all find peace. Mark spent eighteen months in Vietnam, serving there at the same time as his brother Don who was drafted a year later. After Mark graduated from Kent State in 1972, he worked in the corporate world for more than thirty years before retiring in 2006. He then wrote a book titled: Sales Secrets Today, highlighting the most important ideas for achieving superior sales. Don was drafted in 1969 into the Army as an infantryman. He went through NCO advanced training at Ft. Benning before being deployed to Vietnam. His experiences included several frightening encounters with the enemy, both on his Reconnaissance assignments and his regular grunt job. Don Shaughnessy is also a graduate of Kent State and has worked at the Ashtabula Post Office until he retired a few years ago.
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered Today written by Mark Shaughnessy and published by . This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam Remembered Today is a memoir of two brothers in Vietnam at the same time with different experiences their stories represent many of the 2.6 million who served there. It also describes the major battles and events covering the period of 1950-1975 that shaped the military and political strategies for entering and fighting the war. Some of the key incidents include: the battle at Ia Drang Valley, Tet Offensive, Siege at Khe Sanh, My Lai murders, Hamburger Hill, Cambodian bombings, Kent State and actions resulting in a peace treaty.
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by Gregory Pemberton and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes the first real assessment of what the Vietnam War meant, on the battlefields and in Australia. When the first Australian troops landed on Vietnamese soil, the significance of the conflict was scarcely realised - but in time it was to affect not only tens of thousands of Australians who served in Vietnam, but an extraordinary cross-section of people at home. Debate about the war continues two decades later - and this book provides the vital answers about how Australia got involved in Americarsquo;s war; what happened to our troops in Vietnam; the way protest against the war built up on the home front; how the lsquo;Vietnam erarsquo; - the sixties and early seventies - impinged on Australian attitudes; how Australia received its Vietnam veterans on their return. It also looks at our countryrsquo;s relationship with the Vietnamese, now that many live in Australia. A top team of experts show in this book that the Vietnam War had far-reaching effects on Australiarsquo;s foreign policy, national politics, and social attitudes. Some of the controversies it provoked have spread beyond the years 1965-1971, when Australia was directly involved. This thorough, fascinating account tells the whole story of the Vietnam conflict, abroad and in Australia. It contains the Roll of Honour of those who died as a result of the Vietnam War; and it ends with a fourth edition of the lists of those who served in Vietnam.
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by Varick Chittenden and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book featuring miniature dioramas that translate the Vietnam war into art and self-therapy for the artist
Download or read book The American War in Contemporary Vietnam written by Christina Schwenkel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam today -- in official and unofficial histories and in everyday life. Schwenkel analyzes visual representations found in monuments and martyrs' cemeteries, museums, photography and art exhibits, battlefield tours, and related sites of "trauma tourism." In these transnational spaces, American and Vietnamese memories of the war intersect in ways profoundly shaped by global economic liberalization and the return of American citizens as tourists, pilgrims, and philanthropists.
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patriots written by Christian G. Appy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want." -Chicago Tribune Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides: Americans and Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people. By turns harrowing, inspiring, and revelatory, Patriots is not a chronicle of facts and figures but a vivid human history of the war. "A gem of a book, as informative and compulsively readable as it is timely." -The Washington Post Book World
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by Minnesota Historical Society Press and published by . This book was released on 1940-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by R. H. Van Dhyke and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vietnam written by Christopher Goscha and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of modern Vietnam and its diverse and divided past
Download or read book Remembering Heaven s Face written by John Balaban and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his years in Vietnam as a conscientious objector, serving as a teacher and a rescue worker for an organization that sent children with war injuries to the United States.
Download or read book Hell No written by Tom Hayden and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement -- Introduction -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments
Download or read book Vietnam Remembered written by Varick Chittenden and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book featuring miniature dioramas that translate the Vietnam war into art and self-therapy for the artist
Download or read book Our Year of War written by Daniel P. Bolger and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle platoon. Together they fought in the Mekong Delta, battled snipers in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the other's life under fire. But when their one-year tour was over, these two brothers came home side-by-side but no longer in step--one supporting the war, the other hating it. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his brother Tom epitomized the best, and withstood the worst, of the most tumultuous, shocking, and consequential year in the last half-century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war--a gritty, poignant, and resonant story of a family and a nation divided yet still united.
Download or read book In Country written by John Prados and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an invaluable corrective, John Prados, one of our leading interpreters of the Vietnam War, opens a window into the visceral firsthand experiences of those on the ground in Vietnam. His carefully chosen and thoughtfully introduced anthology gathers the voices--in narrative and poetry--of men and women; Americans and Vietnamese (both of the North and South); officers and enlisted men. All of the selections feature individuals' experiences of war or witnessing specific events, and the realities of being caught up in them."--Publisher description.
Download or read book Peace Now written by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the protests and support of ordinary American citizens affect their country's participation in the Vietnam War? This engrossing book focuses on four social groups -- students, African Americans, women, and labor -- and investigates the impact of each on American foreign policy during the war.
