Book
Patriots : the Vietnam War remembered from all sides / Christian G. Appy.
Record details
- ISBN: 067003214X (alk. paper) :
- Physical Description: xxvii, 574 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 2003.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Personal narratives. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
▼ Additional Content
Patriots : The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
Click an element below to view details:
Table of Contents
Patriots : The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Preface | p. xv | |
| Part 1 | Introductions | |
| Commanders | p. 3 | |
| "It turned out the mayor of Danang was a double agent" Bernard Trainor | p. 3 | |
| "With all those choppers they seemed terribly strong" Dang Vu Hiep | p. 9 | |
| War Heroes | p. 12 | |
| "We were babes in arms in every way" Roger Donlon | p. 12 | |
| "I was stuck in a tunnel for seven day" Tran Thi Gung | p. 15 | |
| Paying the Price | p. 20 | |
| "They carried me the whole way back to the North" Ta Quang Thinh | p. 20 | |
| "That sand was probably the only thing that saved me" George Watkins | p. 21 | |
| "All my ancestors are buried here" Phan Xuan Sinh | p. 25 | |
| Where Is Vietnam? | p. 28 | |
| "I just thought I was going to Europe" Jo Collins | p. 28 | |
| "How can my country be at war and I don't know about it?" Deirdre English | p. 30 | |
| Part 2 | Beginnings (1945-64) | |
| "History Is Not Made with Ifs" | p. 35 | |
| "These were not ragtag farmers" Henry Prunier | p. 38 | |
| "The most atrocious conflict in human history" Vo Nguyen Giap | p. 41 | |
| "Deliver Us from Evil" | p. 44 | |
| "The doctor who won the war in Indochina" Daniel Redmond | p. 47 | |
| "Tell 'em I'm not French before they lynch me" Rufus Phillips | p. 50 | |
| "If they're making maps, they're preparing for war" Ngo Vinh Long | p. 54 | |
| "Kick the Tires and Light the Fires" | p. 60 | |
| "It was like 'Terry and the Pirates.'" Richard Olsen | p. 62 | |
| "You could smell the burning flesh" Malcolm Browne | p. 64 | |
| "There was one coup after another" Le Lieu Browne | p. 72 | |
| "My cock lost the fight" Paul Hare | p. 76 | |
| "The Emperor Has No Clothes" | p. 79 | |
| "What's good for Peru is good for Vietnam" Paul Kattenburg | p. 81 | |
| "Dissent which contradicted the public optimism was ignored" Evelyn Colbert | p. 83 | |
| "Boy, you speak just like an American" Chester Cooper | p. 84 | |
| "The Vietnamese had their own ideas" Sergel Khrushchev | p. 87 | |
| "Paradise Island" | p. 90 | |
| "We sent them all back with a generous gift package" John Singlaub | p. 90 | |
| "She divorced her second husband and waited for me" Luyen Nguyen | p. 94 | |
| Part 3 | Escalations (1964-67) | |
| Trails To War | p. 101 | |
| "The Truong Son jungle gave us life" Vu Thi Vinh | p. 103 | |
| "We came home hairless with ghostly white eyes" Nguyen Thi Kim Chuy and Helen Tennant | p. 105 | |
| "I was their wife, their sister, their girlfriend" Hegelheimer | p. 106 | |
| "You Want Me To Start World War III?" | p. 112 | |
| "This was crazy and deceitful policy making" James Thomson | p. 115 | |
| "We could stop this war tomorrow" Seth Tillman | p. 118 | |
| "He used the f-word more freely than a marine in boot camp" Charles Cooper (I) | p. 121 | |
| "Take the North Vietnamese city of Vinh hostage" Walt Whitman Rostow | p. 124 | |
| Central Highlands | p. 128 | |
| "Man, if we're up against this, it's gonna be a long-ass year" Dennis Deal | p. 130 | |
| "It approached the vicinity of the spiritual" Ward Just | p. 135 | |
| "Sometimes I operated all night while the staff took turns pedaling the bicycle" Le Cao Dai | p. 138 | |
| From Civil Rights To Antiwar | p. 142 | |
| "They said I was guilty of treason and sedition" Julian Bond | p. 143 | |
| "When the call is made to free the Mississippi Delta ... I'll be the first one in line" General Baker Jr. | p. 146 | |
| "The Ultimate Protest" | p. 150 | |
| "It was like an arrow was shot from Norman's heart" Anne Morrison Welsh | p. 150 | |
| Free-Fire Zone | p. 156 | |
| "A goddamn chopper was worth three times more than David" Jim Soular | p. 139 | |
| Triage | p. 162 | |
| "No draft board ever failed to meet its quotas" James Lafferty | p. 164 | |
| "The knife man" David M. Smith | p. 167 | |
| "We saved their lives, but what life?" Sylvia Lutz Holland | p. 170 | |
| "Being wounded was not considered the worst thing that could happen" Chi Nguyen | p. 175 | |
| Morale Boosters | p. 177 | |
| "I got a butterfly right on the butt. So that's my war story" Bobbie Keith | p. 179 | |
| "After they got the funk they went back and reloaded" James Brown | p. 184 | |
| "An artist can be as important in war as a soldier" Quach Van Phong | p. 186 | |
| "I can't believe the Donut Dollies got us to do that" Nancy Smoyer | p. 188 | |
| "Nothing was more essential than our sandals" Vu Hy Thieu | p. 190 | |
| "I was president of my high school marching band" Joe Mcdonald | p. 195 | |
| Air War | p. 200 | |
| "I had my notebook right there in the plane" Jonathan Schell and Harlan S. | p. 202 | |
| "Good luck and good hunting" Pinkerton Jr. | p. 209 | |
| "Before I trained as a pilot I had never been in an airplane" Luu Huy Chao | p. 212 | |
| "That was the first time I ever saw an American" Nguyen Quang Sang | p. 215 | |
| "What would it be like to hide in a cave day after day for five years?" Fred Branfman | p. 217 | |
| Prisoners of War (I) | p. 221 | |
| "I don't see how you've got a worse place than this" Porter Halyburton | p. 222 | |
| "They tried to make us say, 'Down with President Ho!'" Truong My Hoa | p. 228 | |
| "Friction against the wheel" Randy Kehler | p. 231 | |
| Cameras, Books, and Guns | p. 238 | |
| "Go see what they did to those people with your money" Philip Jones Griffiths (I) | p. 240 | |
| "We had this idea that we were king of the fucking hill" Larry Heinemann | p. 243 | |
| "We didn't need a darkroom" Duong Thanh Phong | p. 247 | |
| "The counterculture was visible everywhere" Joan Holden | p. 250 | |
| "He lived to kill. He was like a real Ahab" Oliver Stone | p. 253 | |
| "Whoever won, the people always lost" Nguyen Duy | p. 256 | |
| "Soul Brothers, what you dying for?" Yusef Komunyakaa | p. 257 | |
| "We would write something and the magazine would ignore it if it wasn't upbeat" H. D. S. Greenway | p. 259 | |
| Antiwar Escalations | p. 262 | |
| "A rather grandiose sense that we were the stars and spear-carriers of history" Todd Gitlin | p. 265 | |
| "It was like Vietnam had somehow come all the way into our living rooms" Tom Engelhardt | p. 268 | |
| "What? Meet separately with women?" Vivian Rothstein | p. 274 | |
| "They Slept at Our House" | p. 279 | |
| "We fought for a separate South Vietnam, but there wasn't any South" Paul Warnke | p. 279 | |
| Part 4 | The Turning Point (1968-70) | |
| Tet | p. 285 | |
| "He asked me for directions to the police station" Tran Van Tan | p. 288 | |
| "Then--boom!--Tet comes along" Barry Zorthian | p. 290 | |
| "You're not safe in those cities" Philip Jones Griffiths (II) | p. 294 | |
| "I was living a double life" Nguyen Qui Duc | p. 295 | |
| "We buried our own men right there" Bob Gabriel | p. 298 | |
| "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Tuan Van Ban | p. 302 | |
| Memorial Day 1968 | p. 304 | |
| "He Was Only 19--Did You Know Him?" Clark Dougan | p. 304 | |
| From Johnson to Nixon | p. 307 | |
| "Our only shot was to help Humphrey break away from Johnson" John Gilligan | p. 309 | |
| "Political conversion was the greatest aphrodisiac" Peter Kuznick | p. 313 | |
| "The palace guard" J. Shaeffer | p. 316 | |
| "You had to be pretty stupid to stay out in the countryside" Samuel Huntington | p. 319 | |
| "While we had the power, it turned out they had the will" Douglas Kinnard | p. 321 | |
| "A Three-Square-Mile Piece of the United States" | p. 325 | |
| "It was like being in a minimum-security prison" Tom O'Hara | p. 325 | |
| Families at War | p. 328 | |
| "You will not be welcome here again" John Douglas Marshall | p. 328 | |
| "Receiving a letter was a mixed blessing" Huynh Phuong Dong | p. 330 | |
| "They told me I needed to choose between my country and my brother" Richard Houser | p. 332 | |
| "A sign this country has grown up will be when there is a memorial erected to the war resisters" Nathan Houser | p. 334 | |
| "This nice young man from the FBI was here" Suzie Scott | p. 340 | |
| "I was away from home for twenty-nine years" Lam Van Lich | p. 341 | |
| My Lai | p. 343 | |
| "They were butchering people" Larry Colburn | p. 346 | |
| "The protable free-fire zone" Michael Bernhardt | p. 349 | |
| "You Look Like a Gook" | p. 354 | |
| "Damn, I'm a gook" Vincent Okamoto | p. 357 | |
| "I was thanking God they didn't have air support" Wayne Smith | p. 362 | |
| "It sure as hell wasn't 'English Only' in Vietnam" Charley Trujillo | p. 366 | |
| "An Acute Lack of Forgetfulness" | p. 371 | |
| "Before the war, I was Miss Mary Poppins" Gloria Emerson | p. 371 | |
| "To get their ID cards, the girls had to go to bed with the police" Nguyen Ngoc Luong | p. 374 | |
| From Cambodia to Kent State | p. 377 | |
| "Quitting wasn't heroic" Anthony Lake | p. 380 | |
| "I think they pictured it as a kind of huge bamboo Pentagon" A. J. Langguth | p. 382 | |
| "As much as we hated the war on April 29, we hated it more on April 30" Tom Grace | p. 384 | |
| Part 5 | Endings (1970-75) | |
| The End of the Tunnel | p. 393 | |
| "Even the tough guys ... caved in" Alexander M. Haig Jr. | p. 397 | |
| "Kissinger did not trust anybody fully" Morton Halperin | p. 402 | |
| "Vietnamization wasn't working any better than Americanization" Judith Coburn | p. 407 | |
| "We Really Believed..." | p. 413 | |
| "God forbid my boss finds out I'm here" Beverly Gologorsky | p. 413 | |
| "Why should my son die for you country?" Nguyen Ngoc Bich | p. 417 | |
| "The campus was turning into a celebration of Maoism" Chalmers Johnson | p. 422 | |
| "Steve Sherlock, bronze star with a V" Steve Sherlock | p. 425 | |
| Watergate | p. 430 | |
| "We're eating our young" Daniel Ellsberg | p. 432 | |
| "Let's circle the wagons" Egil "Bud" Krogh | p. 436 | |
| "The World was Coming to an End" | p. 441 | |
| "The whole attitude was, stand back little brother, I'll take care of it" Frank Maguire | p. 441 | |
| "All this area was Indian country" Charles Cooper (II) | p. 445 | |
| "I didn't know there was a bad war" George Evans | p. 449 | |
| "Everybody Thought We'd Won the War" | p. 456 | |
| "Reporters just kept writing as if it were Tet '68" Charles Hill | p. 456 | |
| Paris | p. 461 | |
| "I wouldn't buy a used car from that man" Daniel Davidson | p. 463 | |
| "The longest peace talks in history" Nguyen Thi Binh | p. 465 | |
| "It wasn't a mistake, it was an inexplicable crime" Nguyen Khac Huynh | p. 468 | |
| Prisoners of War (II) | p. 470 | |
| "I read Anthony Adverse about four times" Jay Scarborough | p. 471 | |
| "The curriculum was designed to 'detoxicate' us" Tran Ngoc Chau | p. 475 | |
| "Americans like conspiracies" John Mccain | p. 480 | |
| "What mushroom do they think we were hatched under last week?" Patty Hopper Sr. and Earl Hopper Sr. | p. 483 | |
| "The government wanted to control the POW/MIA movement" Gloria Coppin | p. 489 | |
| Collapse | p. 493 | |
| "There was classified confetti all over the trees" Frank Snepp | p. 496 | |
| "We could either lose or tie, but not win" Truong Tran | p. 504 | |
| "The Merriment was Short-Lived" | p. 508 | |
| "The letters remain, but the senders are gone forever" Le Minh Khue | p. 508 | |
| Part 6 | Legacies (1975-) | |
| Missing in Action | p. 515 | |
| "We saw so many parents crying for their lost children" Tran Van Ban | p. 515 | |
| "Why do you hate the Vietnamese?" Tom Corey | p. 517 | |
| War-Zone Childhoods | p. 520 | |
| "I never got there in time to capture an American pilot" Tran Luong | p. 520 | |
| "It's not worth my energy to lay blame on anybody" Bong Macdoran | p. 522 | |
| "People just disappeared and you didn't say anything" Loung Ung | p. 526 | |
| Silences | p. 529 | |
| "I didn't want her to worry, so I lied" Toshio Whelchel | p. 529 | |
| "Your real self was only for you" R. Huynh | p. 530 | |
| "I just want to know what happened" Jayne Stancavage | p. 532 | |
| Souvenirs | p. 534 | |
| "They bought Zippos as a kind of birth certificate" Hoang Van Thiet | p. 534 | |
| Taps | p. 536 | |
| "Old geezers ... playing taps on a tape recorder" Leroy V. Quintana | p. 538 | |
| "I was leading an unpopular war" William Westmoreland | p. 539 | |
| "The first time I ever encountered the Vietnam War was in Hollywood movies" Thai Dao | p. 540 | |
| "You can't talk with people you demonize" Tim O'Brien | p. 542 | |
| "We no longer hate the Americans" Huu Ngoc | p. 545 | |
| "The roof that hasn't been built" Wayne Karlin | p. 547 | |
| "Because love is stronger than enmity" Duong Tuong | p. 548 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 551 | |
| Index | p. 555 |
Descriptive content provided by Syndetics™, a ProQuest® service.
Click here for Terms of Use.
Click here for Terms of Use.
