Viet Nam shaped a generation, yet decades later, the soldiers' acquaintance charcoal difficult to grasp. Now fifteen veterans accept collaborated in recalling, through poetry, fiction, and claimed essays, their war adventures in "More Than a Memory."
Ann Arbor, MI -- No book on Viet Nam has anytime absolutely captured the acquaintance of that war because no one can allege for every soldier. A new album resolves that bound angle by capturing the assorted adventures of veterans in "More Than a Memory: Reflections of Viet Nam" (ISBN 9781932690644, Modern History Press, 2008).
William Faulkner already stated, "The accomplished is never dead. It's not even past." Four decades later, the bequest of America's captivation in Viet Nam continues to abode a nation. For fifteen Viet Nam veterans, the war shaped and still shapes who they are today. In "More Than a Memory," through poetry, abbreviate fiction, and claimed essays, these men reflect on their war adventures and how their tours of assignment afflicted them. Their words accommodate a array of perspectives on Viet Nam, what it meant, and what its bequest is for today.
"More Than a Memory" defines how avant-garde warfare affects the lives of those who lived it, and how it afflicted their families if they alternate from war. The men who accept contributed to this aggregate anniversary accept played a allotment in Viet Nam, whether as medic, air cavalry, recon, advanced observer, or just apparent grunt. In autograph about their experiences, in fictionalizing them to actualize a framework for meaning, or through balladry to abduction the abounding drama, the veterans try to accept and absolution the affliction they felt, witnessed, and too generally buried. Through these assorted voices, readers appear to accept the aggregate accuracy of the Viet Nam experience.
"More Than a Memory" puts anniversary veteran's acquaintance in ambience beside that of his comrades. The album is a canonizing to those who did not appear home; it is a soldier witnessing another's story, it is a priceless certificate of the past, and a admonition of mistakes that have to not be fabricated again. As a arch amid the accomplished and future, "More Than a Memory: Reflections of Viet Nam" is the latest accession to the "Reflections of America" alternation appear by Modern History Press. Anyone gluttonous to accept the Viet Nam War will acquisition abundant to mull over in this continued behind collection.
About the Editor and Authors
The editor of "More Than a Memory, Victor R. Volkman, is Senior Editor of Modern History Press, a publishing abode committed to allotment authors to allege about actual battle and gluttonous character in avant-garde times. Although not a adept of any service, he is committed to seeing veterans' belief told. Among the authors of "More Than a Memory" are Marc Levy, Tom Skiens, and Tony Swindell. Marc Levy served with Delta 1/7 Cav as an infantry medic in Viet Nam and Cambodia in 1970. He was busy already for gallantry, alert for valor, and alert court-martialed. "The Real Deal," a video of his war experiences, is broadcast by The Cinema Guild. Tom Skiens abutting the 11th ablaze infantry army in Hawaii, September 1967 a year out of top school. Tom became the 4.2 inch Forward Observer (FO) for Charlie Company, 4th Battalion 3d Infantry Regiment on the USS General Gordon seven canicule afore they accustomed in Viet Nam. Tony Swindell served with the 31st PID, 11th Light Infantry Brigade (LIB), Americal Division, during 1968-69. His assemblage alternate in the My Lai annihilation in Pinkville in 1968, and he was after a attestant to incidents involving the annihilation of Vietnamese civilians by army administrator Col. John W. Donaldson.
"More Than a Memory: Reflections of Viet Nam" (ISBN 9781932690644, Modern History Press, 2008) can be purchased through bounded and online bookstores. For added information, appointment www.modernhistorypress.com/more-than-a-memory. Publicity contact: www.ReaderViews.com. Review copies accessible aloft request.
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