{"product_id":"patriots-isbn-9780142004494","title":"Patriots","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Intense and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want.\" -\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict, from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975. Sometimes detached and reflective, often raw and emotional, they allow us to see and feel what this war meant to people literally on all sides: Americans and Vietnamese, generals and grunts, policymakers and protesters, guerrillas and CIA operatives, pilots and doctors, artists and journalists, and a variety of ordinary citizens whose lives were swept up in a cataclysm that killed three million people. By turns harrowing, inspiring, and revelatory, \u003ci\u003ePatriots\u003c\/i\u003e is not a chronicle of facts and figures but a vivid human history of the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A gem of a book, as informative and compulsively readable as it is timely.\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003ePatriotsPreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Introductions\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommanders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBernard Trainor: \u003ci\u003eIt turned out the major of Danang was a double agent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDang Vu Hiep: \u003ci\u003eWith all those choppers they seemed terribly strong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWar Heroes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoger Donlon: \u003ci\u003eWe were babes in arms in every way\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTran Thi Gung: \u003ci\u003eI was stuck in a tunnel for seven days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaying the Price\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTa Quang Thinh: \u003ci\u003eThey carried me the whole way back to the North\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Watkins: \u003ci\u003eThat sand was probably the only thing that saved me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhan Xuan Sinh: \u003ci\u003eAil my ancestors are buried here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhere is Vietnam?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJo Collins: \u003ci\u003eI just thought I was going to Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeirdre English: \u003ci\u003eHow can my country be at war and I don't know about it?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Beginnings (1945-64)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory Is Not Made with IFS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry Prunier: \u003ci\u003eThese were not ragtag farmers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYo Nguyen Giap: \u003ci\u003eThe most atrocious conflict in human history\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeliver Us From Evil\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Redmond: \u003ci\u003eThe doctor who won the war in Indochina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRufus Phillips: \u003ci\u003eTell 'em I'm not French before they lynch me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNgo Vinh Long: \u003ci\u003eIf they're making maps, they're preparing for war\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKick the Tires and Light the Fires\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Olsen: \u003ci\u003eIt was like 'Terry and the Pirates'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalcolm Browne: \u003ci\u003eYou could smell the burning flech\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLe Leiu Browne: \u003ci\u003eThere was one coup after another\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Hare: \u003ci\u003eMy cock lost the fight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Emporor Has No Clothes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Kattenburg: \u003ci\u003eWhat's good for Peru is good for Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvelyn Colbert: \u003ci\u003eDissent which contradicted the public optimism was ignored\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChester Cooper: \u003ci\u003eBoy, you speak just like an American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSergei Khruchchev: \u003ci\u003eThe Vietnamese had their own ideas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eParadise Island\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Singlaub: \u003ci\u003eWe sent them all back with a generous gift package\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuyen Nguyen: \u003ci\u003eShe divorces her second husband and waited for me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Escalations\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrails to War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVu Thi Vinh: \u003ci\u003eThe Truong Son jungle gave us life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNguyen Thi Kim Chuy: \u003ci\u003eWe came home hairless with ghostly white eyes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Tennant\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHegelhimer: \u003ci\u003eI was their wife, their sister, their girlfriend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou Want Me to Start World War III?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Thompson: \u003ci\u003eThis was crazy and deceitful policy making\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeth Tillman: \u003ci\u003eWe could stop this war tommorrow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Cooper (I): \u003ci\u003eHe used the f-word more freely than a marine in boot camp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalt Whitman Rostow: \u003ci\u003eTake the North Vietnamese of Vinh hostage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCentral Highlands\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDennis Deal: \u003ci\u003eMan, if we're up against this, it's gonna be a long-ass year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWard Just: \u003ci\u003eIt approached the vicinity of the spiritual\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLe Cao Dai: \u003ci\u003eSometimes I operated all night while the staff took turns pedaling the bicycle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Civil Rights to Antiwar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulian Bond: \u003ci\u003eThey said I was guilty of treason and sedition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Baker Jr.: \u003ci\u003eWhen the call is made to free the Mississippi Delta...I'll be the first one in line\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Ultimate Protest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Morrison Welsh: \u003ci\u003eIt was like an arrow was shot from Norman's heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFree-Fire Zone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJim Soular: \u003ci\u003eA goddamn chopper was worth three times more than David\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTriage\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Lafferty: \u003ci\u003eNo draft board ever failed to meet its quotas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid M. Smith: \u003ci\u003eThe knife man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSylvia Lutz Holland: \u003ci\u003eWe saved their lives, but what life?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChi Nguyen: \u003ci\u003eBeing wounded was not considered the worst thing that could happen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorale Boosters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBobbie Keith: \u003ci\u003eI got a butterfly right on the butt. So that's my war story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Brown: \u003ci\u003eAfter they got the funk they went back and reloaded\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuach Van Phong: \u003ci\u003eAn artist ca be as important in war as a soldier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy Smoyer: \u003ci\u003eI can't believe the Donut Dollies got us to do that\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVu Hy Thieu: \u003ci\u003eNothing was more essential than our sandals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe McDonald: \u003ci\u003eI was president of my high school marching band\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAir War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJopnathan Schell: \u003ci\u003eI had my notebook right there in the plane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarlan S.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePinkerton Jr.: \u003ci\u003eGood luck and good hunting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuu Huy Chao: \u003ci\u003eBefore I trained as a pilot I had never been in an airplane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNguyen Quang Sang: \u003ci\u003eThat was the first time I ever saw an American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFred Branfman: \u003ci\u003eWhat would it be like to hide in a cave all for five years?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrisoners of War (I)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePorter Halyburton: \u003ci\u003eI don't see how you've got a worse place than this\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTroung My Hoa: \u003ci\u003eThey tried to make us say, 'Down with President Ho!'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRandy Kehler: \u003ci\u003eFriction against the wheel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCameras, Books, and Guns\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Jones Griffiths (I): \u003ci\u003eGo see what they did to those people with your money\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarry Heinemann: \u003ci\u003eWe had this idea that we were king of the fucking hill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoung Thanh Phong: \u003ci\u003eWe didn't need a darkroom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan Holden: \u003ci\u003eThe counterculture was visible everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOliver Stone: \u003ci\u003eHe lived to kill. He was like a real Arab\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNguyen Duy: \u003ci\u003eWhoever won, the people always lost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYusef Komunyakaa: \u003ci\u003eSoul Brothers, what you dying for?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH.D.S. Greenway: \u003ci\u003e We would write something ans the magazine would ignore it if it wasn't upbeat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntiwar Escalations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTodd Gitlin: \u003ci\u003eA rather grandoise sense that we were the stars and spear-carriers of history\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Englehardt: \u003ci\u003eIt was like Vietnam had somehow come all the way into our living rooms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivian Rothstein: \u003ci\u003eWhat? Meet separately with women?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey Slept At Our House\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Warnke: \u003ci\u003eWe fought for a separate South Vietnam, but there wasn't any South\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: The Turning Point (1968-70)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTran Van Tan: \u003ci\u003eHe asked me for directions to the police sensations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarry Zorthian: \u003ci\u003eThen-boom!-Tet comes along\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Jones Griffiths (II): \u003ci\u003eYou're not safe in those cities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNguyen Qui Duc: \u003ci\u003eI was living a double life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBob Gabriel: \u003ci\u003eWe buried our own men right there\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTuan Van Ban: \u003ci\u003eAttack! Attack! Attack!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMemorial Day 1968\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClark Dougan: \u003ci\u003eHe Was Only 19-Did You Know Him?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Johnson to Nixon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Gilligan: \u003ci\u003eOur only shot was to help Humphrey break away from Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Kuznick: \u003ci\u003ePolitical conversion was the greatest ahprodisiac\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. Shaeffer: \u003ci\u003eThe Palace Guard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Huntington: \u003ci\u003eYou had to be pretty stupid to stay out in the countryside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouglas Kinnard: \u003ci\u003eWhile we had the power, it turned out they had the will\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Three-Square-Mile Piece of the United States\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom O'Hara: \u003ci\u003eIt was like being in a minimum-security prison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFamiles At War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Douglas Marshal: \u003ci\u003eYou will not be welcome here again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuynh Phuong Dong: \u003ci\u003eRecieving a letter was a mixed blessing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Houser: \u003ci\u003eThey told me I needed to choose between my country and my brother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNathan Houser: \u003ci\u003eA sign this country has grown up will be when there is a memorial erected to the war resisters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzie Scott: \u003ci\u003eThis nice young man from the FBI was here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLam Van Lich: \u003ci\u003eI was away from home for twenty-nine years\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy Lai\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarry Colburn: \u003ci\u003eThey were butchering people\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Bernhardt: \u003ci\u003eThe portable fire-free zone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou Look Like a Gook\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVincent Okamoto: \u003ci\u003eDamn, I'm a Gook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWayne Smith: \u003ci\u003eI was thinking God they didn't have air support\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharley Trujillo: \u003ci\u003eIt sure as hell wasn't 'English only' in Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Acute Lack of Forgetfulness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGloria Emerson: \u003ci\u003eBefore the war, I was Miss Mary Poppins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNguyen Ngoc Luong: \u003ci\u003eTo get their ID cards, the girls had to go to bed with the police\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Cambodia to Kent State\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Lake: \u003ci\u003eQuitting wasn't heroic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA.J. Langguth: \u003ci\u003eI think they pictured it as a kind of huge bamboo Pentagon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Grace: \u003ci\u003eAs much as we hated the war on April 29, we hated it more on April 30\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five: Endings (1970-75)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe End of the Tunnel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander M. Haig Jr.: \u003ci\u003eEven the tough guys...caved in\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorton Halerin: \u003ci\u003eKissenger did not trust anybody fully\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudith Coburn: \u003ci\u003eVietnamization wasn't working any better than Americanization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe Really Believes...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeverly Gologorsky: \u003ci\u003eGod forbid my boss finds out I'm here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNguyen Ngoc Bich: \u003ci\u003eWhy should my son die for your country?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChalmers Johnson: \u003ci\u003eThe campus was turning into a celebration of Maoism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteve Sherlock: \u003ci\u003eSteve Sherlock, bronze star with a V.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWatergate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Ellsberg: \u003ci\u003eWe're eating our young\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEgil \"Bud\" Krogh: \u003ci\u003eLet's circle the wagons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe World Was Coming to An End\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank Maguire: \u003ci\u003eThe whole attitude was, stand back little brother, I'll take care of it\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Cooper (II): \u003ci\u003eAll this area was Indian country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEverybody Thought We'd Won the War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Hill: \u003ci\u003eReporters just kept writing as if it were Tet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eParis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Davidson: \u003ci\u003eI wouldn't buy a used car from that man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNguyen Thi Binh: \u003ci\u003eThe longest peace talks in history\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNguyen Khac Huynh: \u003ci\u003eIt wasn't a mistake, it was an inexplicable crime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrisoners of War (II)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJay Scarborough: \u003ci\u003eI read Anthony Adverse about four times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTran Ngoc Chau: \u003ci\u003eThe curriculum was designed to detoxicate us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn McCain: \u003ci\u003eAmericans like conspiracies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatty and Earl Hopper Sr.: \u003ci\u003eWhat mushroom do they think we were hatched under last week?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGloria Coppin: \u003ci\u003eThe government wanted to control the POW\/MIA movement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCopllapse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank Snepp: \u003ci\u003eThere was classified confetti all over the trees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTroung Tran: \u003ci\u003eWe could either lose or tie, but not win\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Merriment was Short-Lived\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLe Minh Khue: \u003ci\u003eThe letters remain, but the senders are gone forever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Six: Legacies (1975-  )\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMissing In Action\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTran Van Ban: \u003ci\u003eWe saw so many parents crying for their lost children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Corey: \u003ci\u003eWhy do you hate the Vietnamese?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWar-Zone Childhoods\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTran Luong: \u003ci\u003eI never got there in time to capture an American pilot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBong Macdoran: \u003ci\u003eIt's not worth my energy to lay blame on anybody\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuong Ung: \u003ci\u003ePeople just disappeared and you didn't say anything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSilences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToshio Whelchel: \u003ci\u003ei didn't her to worry, so I lied\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eR. Huynh: \u003ci\u003eYour real self was only for you\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJayne Stancavage: \u003ci\u003eI just want to know what happened\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSouvenirs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoang Van Thiet: \u003ci\u003eThey bought Zippos as a kind of birth certificate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTaps\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeroy V. 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and absorbing... If you buy only one book on the Vietnam War, this is the one you want. (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gem of a book, as informative and compulsively readable as it is timely. (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian G. Appy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of two previous books on the Vietnam War. His oral history of the war, \u003ci\u003ePatriots\u003c\/i\u003e, was a main selection of Book of the Month Club and won the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction. 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