Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Letters home from vietnam recalls the vietnam war in the words of the men and women who fought it, in letters written in haste, without selfconsciousness and. What was it like returning home from the vietnam war. More than twentyfive years after the official end of the vietnam war, dear america allows us to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served in vietnam.
More than 200 letters home from vietnam era servicemen to family, friends, and others have been selected for publication in this volume about the most intimate thoughts of the soldiers who served in vietnam. Teaching nonfiction literature of the vietnam war jstor. There are examples of pride, anger, confusion, depression, homesickness, joy, and. Dear mom and dad, doting fathertobe, peach and fuzzy. Nearly forty years after the official end of the vietnam war, dear america.
An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on vietnam. Contains letters and poems written to families and friends by soldiers. Letters home from vietnam is a documentary based on the. Start studying dear america letters home from vietnam. Consisting of 208 letters, poems, and journal entries written by 125 people, this book is a heart wrenching, first hand account of the personal experiences of soldiers both on and behind the front lines in vietnam, and. Letters home from vietnam 19671979the twentieth century was a decade of war. New york vietnam veterans memorial commission this anthology consists of 208 letters, poems, clippings, and diary entries written by american servicemen in vietnam. Due in part to escalating advances in military technology, twentiethcentury modern combat was exponentially more devastating than any previous incarnation. Dear america letters home from vietnam 4 author notes as a collection of letters from hundreds of authors, it would be confusing and impractical, if not almost impossible, to provide notes on all of the authors. This is a poignant collection of letters and poems. As i suppose you can see by my new stationery, this is not my normal letter, while walking down the road one day, in the merry, merry month of september, my squad got into a heluva fray, and lost momentarily one member.
Letters were the bridge between vietnam and america, between what the war had made them. Letters home from vietnam 1967 1979the twentieth century was a decade of war. Letters home from vietnam movie script by richard dewhurst on. Letters home from vietnam, the hbo movie now being released theatrically, is the first film about vietnam to come to us free of bias, free of rhetoric. Growing pains amid the calamity of vietnam are lifted from soldiers letters home and channeled into the film dear america, letters home from vietnam. Letters home from vietnam is a 1987 american documentary film inspired by the anthology of the same title, directed by bill couturie in 1987. In 1981, six years after the official end of the vietnam war, mayor edward koch of new york city appointed a task force of twentyseven leading citizens of the city to develop a framework for a fitting memorial to vietnam war veterans. Dear america letters home from vietnam 4 author notes as a collection of letters from hundreds of authors, it would be confusing and impractical, if not almost impossible, to. Letters home from vietnam by bernard edelman online at alibris. Letters home from vietnam by bernard edelman, editor w. Letters home from vietnam and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. This gripping documentary of the vietnam war begins with the kennedy administration and extends through the return of the first mias in the mid 1970s. In this collection of more than 200 letters, they share their first impressions of the rigors of life in the bush, their longing for home and family, their emotions over the conduct of the war, and their ache at.