Those Who Have Borne The Battle (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Flynn, The Draft, 1940–1973, 230.2 Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July, 73. Even though Ron Kovic is several years younger than I am, his Chapter 2 seems so similar in many ways to my experience, but obviously my boyhood was more rural. And, of course, my military service was not marked by the horror and sacrifice that his was.3 Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War, 8.4 David Maraniss, They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace in Vietnam and America, October 1967.5 The Jefferson Lecture “War Veterans and American Democracy,” “Remarks, Veterans Day, 2009, at the Vietnam Memorial Wall,” and “Veterans Day in America: The Place of the Korean War in a National Day of Memory” are all available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jameswright/.6 Lloyd Kreider’s account in Rudy Tomedi, No Bugles, No Drums: An Oral History of the Korean War, 59.7 Christopher H. Hamner, Enduring Battle: American Soldiers in Three Wars, 1776–1945, 207. For a recent personal account of this experience, see Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War.8 Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, 343.9 Thom Shanker, “Gates Warns Against Wars Like Iraq and Afghanistan,”
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