The education of Corporal John Musgrave Vietnam and its aftermath
Prologue: The music of the night -- The making of a Marine. Born to serve ; The house of horrors ; Drill instruction ; Finishing school ; Shipping out -- The Kill Zone. First contact ; Joining the varsity team ; M-I-S-E-R-Y ; Operation Buffalo ; The Kill Zone -- Marching against the war. Leaving the...
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New York
Alfred A. Knopf
2021
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Prologue: The music of the night -- The making of a Marine. Born to serve ; The house of horrors ; Drill instruction ; Finishing school ; Shipping out -- The Kill Zone. First contact ; Joining the varsity team ; M-I-S-E-R-Y ; Operation Buffalo ; The Kill Zone -- Marching against the war. Leaving the Corps ; : Big vet on campus ; Joining the VVAW ; Public speaking ; Finding the others -- Epilogue: Coming full circle "A Marine's searing and intimate memoir about surviving Vietnam and its aftermath."-- Service, patriotism, faith, and civic pride. Musgrave grew up looking forward to the day when he could enlist to serve his country as his father had done. During his senior year in high school, with the Vietnam War already raging, he signed up for the Marine Corps. Here he renders his wartime experience with a powerful intimacy and immediacy: from the rude awakening of boot camp, to daily life in the Vietnam jungle, to a chest injury that very nearly killed him. He describes the difficulty of returning home to a society rife with antiwar sentiment, his own survivor's guilt, and the slow realization that he and his fellow veterans had been betrayed by the government they served. Ultimately, Musgrave found peace among his fellow veterans working to end the war. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Beschreibung: | xii, 270 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780451493569 978-0-451-49356-9 |