Articles Related to Vietnam veterans
Condemned Property? By Dusty Earl Trimmer
October 2, 2014
In Condemned Property?: Our Most Unpopular War Continues for Americans Who Fought in Vietnam... WHY? This is Their Story and Mine (Dog Ear Publishing, 484 pp., $29, hardcover; $25, paper) "Dusty” Earl Trimmer provides a…
The Private War of Corporal Henson by E. Michael Helms
August 18, 2014
No information is given about the author in E. Michael Helms' The Private War of Corporal Henson (Stairway Press, 267 pp., $17.95, paper), except that he wrote the war memoir, The Proud Bastards . The…
New Head of NEH, William Adams, is a Vietnam Vet
July 10, 2014
The U.S. Senate voted yesterday to confirm William D. “Bro” Adams as the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities . The NEH is an independent federal agency that supports research and learning…
Shattered Dreams by Phil Spencer
July 9, 2014
Phil Spencer arrived in Vietnam on October 7, 1967. He was assigned to the First Signal Brigade and spent his tour of duty in Vietnam doing work he had been trained for: climbing poles and installing communication…
Dartmouth Veterans edited by Phillip C. Schaefer
April 18, 2014
In the Foreword to Dartmouth Veterans: Vietnam Perspectives (Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England, 400 pp., $29.95, paper; $28.99 e book), edited by Phillip C. Schaefer, James Wright tells us he joined the Marines in…
The Conflict That Was A War Edited by Jim B. Money
April 18, 2014
Jim B. Money served as a U. S. Army sergeant with Company B of the 65th Engineer Battalion in the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam from January 1967 to January 1968. Money is the editor…
Welcome Home by Ross Lewis
March 14, 2014
Ross Lewis's Welcome Home: A Monument to Honor: An American Tribute to Vietnam Veterans (216 pp., paper, $37) is a large-format, heavily illustrated book that is a part of a wider project to---as Ross puts it---"foster…
The Boys Next Door by R.L. Tecklenburg
November 27, 2013
"The good memories I have of Vietnam are of the people I met and befriended, most of whom were children, " R.L.Tecklenburg writes in The Boys Next Door: A Marine Returns to Vietnam (St. Johann Press,…
This Girl’s Life by Michelle Brown
January 29, 2013
Michelle Brown's This Girl's Life: Being the Child of a War Veteran (Dark Planet Publishing, 146 pp., $22, paper) is a short memoir that focuses on the abuse the author underwent at the hands of…
Seeking Positive Vietnam Veterans' Stories
June 15, 2012
Susan Cox, a History Professor at City College of San Francisco, is working on what she calls a "Vietnam veteran positive" book. The book, Professor Cox tell us, "debunks the stereotypical image of the Vietnam…