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"WISCONSIN VIETNAM WAR STORIES: OUR VETERANS REMEMBER" SHARES FIRST-HAND A
CCOUNTS OF WAR EXPERIENCE
"Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories is one of the very best oral histories of th
e Vietnam War. These veterans' heartfelt recollections make the reader fee
l, smell, and taste what life was like for ordinary young Americans sent to
fight thousands of miles from home."
-Robert D. Schulzinger, author of A Time for War: The United States and Vie
tnam, 1941-1975
A companion book to the documentary produced by Wisconsin Public Television
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barely-legal sons of Wisconsin to seasoned soldiers, the men and women in
these pages make up a diverse collection of voices: an army chaplain who le
d services at Khe Sanh but never picked up a weapon; identical twin brother
s who discover they are stationed at the same South Vietnam base; a Hmong r
efugee who fought the Secret War at age 12 in the jungles of Laos and later
moved to Milwaukee; two prisoners of war whose years in captivity total al
most 14; a Medal of Honor recipient; and dozens more.
The stories in these pages expand beyond the borders of the war to include
personal accounts of the events leading up to it, as well as the experience
s of veterans as they return home to civilian life at the height of antiwar
protest. Supported by original maps, photographs from the veteran's own co
llections, historical chapter introductions, biographies, and a comprehensi
ve "honor roll" of Wisconsin-born soldiers who died or remain missing, "Wis
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About the Authors: Sarah A. Larsen is a graduate of the University of Wisco
nsin-Madison, works in the History Unit of Wisconsin Public Television, and
in 2008 co-authored Wisconsin Korean War Stories with Jennifer M. Miller.
For this volume Larsen transformed the raw transcripts of veteran interview
s into a comprehensive, book-length format. Sarah lives with her family in
Madison. Jennifer M. Miller has worked as a teacher and lecturer for the U
niversity of Wisconsin-Madison History Department from which she received h
er master's degree in 2005. An expert in U.S. foreign relations with East A
sia during the Cold War, she is writing a Ph.D. dissertation on U.S.-Japane
se relations during the 1950s, and has been published in Reviews in History
. The recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, Jennifer is currently living in
Tokyo for research.
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Jeremi Suri, University of Wisconsin Professor of History, will present:
"What are the real lessons from the Vietnam War?"
Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 7:00PM
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Pere
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Book signing with "Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories" veteran participants and
the author
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By Sarah A. Larsen and Jennifer M. Miller
Introduction by Jeremi Suri, Department of History, University of Wisconsin
-Madison
Foreword by John Scocos, Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs
Paperback: $24.95
400 pages, 180 b/w photos, 8 maps, 8 X 9
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