Homecoming

by Bob Greene

Book Overview

"Were you ever spat upon when you returned home to the United States?" asked syndicated columnist Greene of the Vietnam veterans among his readership. He received over 1000 letters in reply, many... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399133860
• ISBN13: 9780399133862
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Horribly sad..

This book is heartbreaking to read. It disgusts me to read about so called Americans, who treated our soldiers like scum. While some of the stories shared were heartwarming, the negative treatment that many of the soldiers endured, overshadowed the positive stories.I read this book a long time ago, and recalling some of the stories still brings me to tears. This book is a must read. To our Vietnam veterans, may God bless you. To the maggots who spat on our soldiers.. may you rot in Hell.

The truth about how Vietnam veterans were treated

Syndicated columnist Bob Greene heard the stories about anti-war protesters abusing Vietnam veterans, and wondered if they were true. He asked his readers to tell their stories, and then he checked them out. Despite denials from the Left, Greene found that protesters and others did, indeed, spit on and abuse returning veterans. He found the stories so compelling that he compiled them in this fascinating book. I think 'Homecoming' provides valuable perspective on a troubled time in U.S. history.

This book is heartbreaking.

To be brutally honest, parts of this book reduced me to tears. This book concentrates on the homecoming of the Vietnam Veteran. The author asks the question "were returning soldiers spat upon their arrival to the States". Some answered yes, some answered no and some answered with incidents far more worse than just being spit upon. Out of any book dealing with a homecoming of the Vietnam Veteran, this is the one that I would strongly recommend.

contributors share real experiences

this book will help the mainstream american understand the many different and complex experiences and reactions of those who returned from vietnam, as well as the feelings and reactions of their relatives and friends, and can also serve as a reference .

Letter From people who was soliders

Actualy, I read this book which was translated in Japanese ( I am Japanese). I couldn't read it without weep. When Soliders return from Vetnam, they felt disillusion because they believed that they fight for thier country. However, there were many terrible things for them.