Vietnam: The Heartland Remembers

by Stanley W. Beesley

Overview

This oral history offers the voices of thirty-three Oklahomans. Some of them fought in the Vietnam War, and others waited—some are still waiting—for their loved ones to come home, alive or in a body bag. In the ranks of Stanley W. Beesley’s compilation are reluctant warriors, gung ho marines, skeptics, embittered former patriots, and humanists—whites, blacks, Indians, and Hispanics; men and women; officers and grunts. These men and women recount their experiences not as heroes but as ordinary people thrust by politics and fate into the uncommon circumstances of the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, they bring to life their deadened memories and remind us of what some have chosen to forget.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806121628
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	09/15/1988
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Stanley W. Beesley, who was a Ranger team leader in Vietnam and twice was awarded the Bronze Star, teaches school in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Of the other contributors, whose accounts he compiled and edited, he says, "They opened up their souls and trusted me and let me carry their hearts around in my hands."