Voices of the Vietnam POWs : Witnesses to Their Fight.

Unsure whether they would be greeted as traitors or heroes, POWs returning from Vietnam responded by holding tight to their chosen motto, "Return with Honor." "We're giving the American people what they want and badly need--heroes," said a Vietnam jungle POW. "I feel it...

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Main Author: Howes, Craig
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Summary:Unsure whether they would be greeted as traitors or heroes, POWs returning from Vietnam responded by holding tight to their chosen motto, "Return with Honor." "We're giving the American people what they want and badly need--heroes," said a Vietnam jungle POW. "I feel it's our responsibility, our duty to help them where possible shed the idea this war was a waste, useless, as unpopular as it may have been." In the first book to explore the entire range of memoirs, biographies, and group histories published since America's Vietnam POWs returned home, Craig Howes explores the development of a col
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781601299574
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Language:English.
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