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We Were
Soldiers Once . . . and Young
"We were the children of the 1950s
and John F. Kennedy's young stalwarts
of the early
1960s. He told the world that Americans would 'pay
any price,
bear any burden, meet any hardship' in the
defense of freedom.
We were the down payment on that
costly contract, but the man who signed it
was not
there when we fulfilled his promise. John F. Kennedy
waited for us on a hill
in Arlington
National Cemetery, and in time we came by the
thousands to fill
those slopes with our white marble
markers and to ask on the murmur of the wind
if that
was truly the future he had envisioned for
us."
By Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, USA
(Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway
"We Were
Soldiers Once & Young"
prologue,
by Lt. Gen. Hal Moore & Joe
Galloway
The
Long Grey Line, by Rick Atkinson [The first class at
West Point that knew
Vietnam was on
their post-graduation orders. Thirty officers from the
class of
1966 died in the war. The
author follows the lives and careers of
classmates.]
Where
We Where, by Michael P. Kelley
[A comprehensive guide to the firebases, military
installations, and naval vessels
of the Vietnam War, 1945-1975]
Ho
Chi Minh: A book review by Frances
FitzGerald
The
DeCillis Collection [housed
in the A. Robert DeHart Learning Center
at
DeAnza
College]
Stolen
Valor: How the
Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its
History
by B.G. Burkett and Glenna
Whitley
[documents the fraud that has been
so
destructive to the true legacy of those who fought in
Vietnam, mainstream
media's
decades of negligence and collusion in this defamation
of those who
served with
honor."]
"Mr.
Green", by Robert Olen Butler
"The
Tale of Kieu", by Nguyen Du [class lectures and
notes]
"A
Time to Break Silence", by Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
"A
Good Scent From A Strange Mountain", by Robert Olen
Butler
Fifty Books
About the Vietnam War [a recommended reading
list. These books
were chosen by polling
a select group of newsgroup readers
representing
academics, veterans
and anti-war]
"Hau
Nghia", by Marc Gilbert & James Wells
"Spit &
Polish", by Richard Seltzer [entire text of screen
play]
"A Year to Kill",
by James F. McColloch
"Fading Photographs From My Mind's
Own Album", by Michael McCombs
Literary
Hootch [Web link collection]
Author:
Gustav Hasford [poems, short stories, transcript for
Full Metal Jacket]
War
Stories [short stories]
Vietnam
War Myths
"Deros: A Year In Vietnam",
by Michael J. Horton
Vietnam
Veterans Newsletter: "NamVet"
"Shrapnel in
the Heart", by Laura Palmer [Letters and
Remembrances from the
Vietnam Memorial,
Web page with Introduction]
Battle
Dressing, Journey of a Nurse in Vietnam, by Dusty
[Battle Dressing traces the emotional
journey of a Vietnam nurse.
And finally back in the States, she alternatively
seems to be apologizing to an
uncomprehending home front for the changes inside
her--and flaunting them.]
They
Were Ours: Gloucester County's Loss in Vietnam
[Forty-three young men shared a devotion to
duty and country with the three
million American men and women who were destined
to take part in our country's
longest war. It is their collective story,
told in the chronological order of their deaths.]
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