American Veterans on War: Personal Stories from WW II to Afghanistan
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American Veterans on War: Personal Stories from WW II to Afghanistan
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Overview
With American Veterans on War, Elise Forbes Tripp brings our current wars and their predecessors home in the words of 55 veterans aged 20 to 90. The veterans raise questions about when wars are worth fighting, what missions can and can’t be won, and the costs and benefits of US intervention, both around the world and domestically. Recent veterans tell wrenching stories of coping with hostile forces without uniforms, of not knowing who is friend or foe, and of the lasting traces of combat once they’ve returned home.
American Veterans on War provides a sweeping overview of three-quarters of a century of American wars, properly grounding that history in the words of the men and women whose bodies were on the line.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781623710002 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 08/02/2012 |
| Sold by: | SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 460 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
Table of Contents
Introduction Veterans' Narratives ix
1 World War II: The Good War
Introduction: A Terrible Fight but a Good War 2
1 On Land and in the Air 6
Allen Jones: Fighting with General Patton in France 7
Lawrence Batley: Fighting with General Bradley in France, V-E Day 15
William Murray: Wounded at Gela, in the Sicily Landing 23
David Cohen: A Witness at the Liberation of Concentration Camps 30
Raymond Elliott: An African American Combat Engineer Combats Racism 40
Robert Tyler: In France, a POW Escapes Back to His Line 47
Richard Kells: In Germany, a POW is Strafed by American Pilots 53
Donald Ryan: A Minneapolis Orphan Becomes a Pilot 62
2 At Sea in the Pacific and Atlantic 67
Edward Borucki: Surviving the Attack on Pearl Harbor 68
Charles Sakowicz: Abandoned at Sea by the USS Franklin 73
Lionel Brindamour; Island-Hopping in the Pacific 79
Charles Allard: A Pharmacist's Assistant Treats the Wounded 86
Donald Walker: Protecting Carriers from U-Boats in the Atlantic 90
Paul Seamans: From Seaman to Ship's Captain in the Pacific 99
Russell Brocklesby: The USS Randolph was a Lucky Ship 104
Edward Wells: Repatriating POWs from Post-Bomb Nagasaki 109
Walter Kostanski: Protecting Oil Tankers at Sea 115
Tom Herrick: An Overview of American Wars 120
2 Korea:The Forgotten War
Introduction.- Fighting the Coldest War 127
3 Fighting the "Forgotten War" 130
Almond Hart: A Signal Corpsman Serves Too Close to EnemyFire 131
Ronald Bassett; After Korea, Injured in a Jump over Japan 139
Arthur Miller: Treating the Wounded Near Panmunjom 144
Alton Fellows: Fighting Chinese Teenagers in the Hills of North Korea 152
Donald Ryan: Flying the Last Bombing Mission of the Korean War 158
3 Vietnam: The Lost War
Introduction: The War at the End of the Tunnel 168
4 On the Ground 173
Daniel Walsh: Talking with General Piatt about US Wars 174
James Munroe: The Dean of an Episcopal Cathedral with PTSD 180
Dennis Driscoil: Platoon Leader, Silver Star, Wounded in Action 189
Pete Rogers: Witness to a Case of Waterboarding in Vietnam 199
Kenneth Gregg: The Evacuation Hospitals Never Moved Forward 206
Lidon Chevannes: Kicking Heroin Addiction and Helping Veterans 212
Gumersindo Gomez: A Career Sergeant Returns to Vietnam 220
Joseph Dougherty: Keep your Clothes on in a Whorehouse! 227
Albert Cummings: Wounded in Action, Working to Honor All American Veterans 235
Herb Voudren: Working with the Montagnards, US Allies in Vietnam 239
Cherie Rankin: A Young Woman Bolsters Soldier Morale In-Country 246
5 In the Air 255
Robert Basye: Emergency Reconnaissance Extractions 256
Richard Warren: Finding Christ and Volunteering in Cambodia after Vietnam 262
David Bressem: Treating the Psychologically Wounded Veteran 272
Rod Carlson: Meeting Major Chuck Robb on Hill 12 281
Alfred Guertin: Bronze Star, DFC, and a Career in Aviation 288
John Hartman: Deaths on a Disastrous Mission to Laos 295
David HUlbrook: Many Near Misses over Vietnam 304
Legrand Hines: Commuting to the War in Laos from Thailand 311
Bruce Lake: Silver Star, Author of 1,500 Feet over Vietnam 317
Steven Sunclerman: Transporting Trained Dogs for the ReconTeams 323
Gordon Tubesing: The Fall of Saigon on My Second Tour 326
6 A Vietnam Pilot Remembered: William "Bing" Emerson, 1941-11/20/68 330
Robert Basye: The Last Time I Saw Bing, He Bummed a Cigarette 331
Rod Carlson: They Called Him "Captain Bing" 335
Alfred Guertin: We Made a Special Plaque with Wings for Bing's Grave 336
Steven Sunderman: Bing Wasn't Scared at All 336
Richard Warren: Bing Wiped his Corvette's Dip-Stick with his Hat! 337
Bruce Lake: We-Packed up Bing's Effects 339
William Hester: I Was Bing's Crew Chief When We Crashed 343
4 Iraq And Afghanistan: Endless Wars
Introduction: Fighting a Universe of "Bad Guys" on Their Own Turf 346
7 The Gulf War and the Wars on Terror after 9/11 354
Erik Johnson: We Should Have Gone to Baghdad and Finished the War 355
Jonathan Schnauber: Making UMass Veteran-Friendly 361
Chris McGurk: Losing a Comrade Called Chris 369
Charly Woehlke: A Female MP Trains Local Police 380
Chris Backlund: Meeting Death in Faliujah; Let's Use Education in Afghanistan 390
Peter Duffy: The Challenge of Operating in a Foreign Culture 399
Victor Nunez-Ortiz: An Engineer Confronts War in the Desert 406
Josee Goldin: A Female Officer on Three Iraq Tours, Including "The Surge" 412
Sean Kenney: Surviving Two Suicide Bombs and Saving a Friend 419
"Steve" Nsaif: An Iraqi Interpreter with US Forces Seeks US Citizenship 431
Epilogue:The Reckoning 441
Glossary of Military Terms 450
Acknowledgments 455