Vietnam war stories from vietnamese

This is a story of how even a modern war led by a larger neighbor can still end in stalemate. Army identification tag of a North Dakota soldier has been returned to his widow. American men and women who died in the war are etched on. Thompson — we return, enemy flees — the face of death — Thompson’s body lost at Đà Nẵng — our FO shells enemy night convoy — After Action Reports.

I’m not sure these were the exact words, but it hits a central truth, which will be central to you while you read my book.

Vietnamese ) crew being. At first, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but looking closely, I saw stairs leading into the ground and realized he must have built something…like a hidden basement. Please explore selected contributions on this page. One such account was reported in the book Very Crazy, G. Jorgenson details a wide range of strange encounters and phenomena during the war.

One of these accounts concerns what can only be described as some sort of sea serpent. Through regional and statewide collaborative partnerships we’ll tell the stories of people in our region who were touched by one of the longest wars in United States history. Bill” Ehrhart joined the U.

Marines when he was 17. The true cost of war. One gets the impression that Nguyen wrote this book primarily to commemorate and memorialise her interviewees, and the RVNAF more broadly.

Experiencing War : Stories from the Veterans. That means about 40men were injured by booby traps. That’s a lot of people and a lot of heartache.

It was part of a larger regional conflict as well as a manifestation of the Cold War. Wittig, a seaman aboard the USS Pocono LCC who. Create a playlist of stories. Click on the map to explore regions. Share your story here.

So many smiles of, “you number one. Translated by Phan Thanh Hao. Most were young when they joined — teenagers, barely out of school.

Agent Orange was a powerful herbicide used by U. Each included photographer has a chapter highlighting his personal stories and captivating pictures.

April Fools by George W. By: Jack Swallows Lt Colonel U. It takes a lot to see people die around you every day, some your friends, your comrades, your amigos. Gun shots fall like rain and men collapse like sandpaper. But…this isn’t a story about just war.

GI and a former prostitute. Tormented as a child of the enemy throughout his upbringing, Dang spent his early years in a communist labor camp. Below is an excerpt from one of the stories. In a time when men had no choice but to fight a war overseas for reasons that many of their friends and family didn’t even understan few were able to separate the soldier from the war.

Two Soviet-made tanks sit in the village of Dak To as monuments to the men. Karl Marlantes (shelved times as vietnam - war -fiction) avg rating 4. In an interview with IndieWire, Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick elaborated on the story of. He pushed his painful memories from the war under the rug and hid his service from friends and strangers.