The Sons of Bardstown: 25 Years of Vietnam in an American Town

by Jim Wilson

Book Overview

Provides a poignant portrait of the small Kentucky town of Bardstown and the disproportionately large number of its young men who died in Vietnam. 15,000 first printing. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517577372
• ISBN13: 9780517577370
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Brings the Impact of Vietnam Home

I'm originally from Bardstown and knew/know some of the individuals mentioned in this book. It's well written and really brings the impact of what happened in Vietnam home.

I Served With You

This is a story of us who served in Vietnam. It is a direct contact with everyday Americans who served there, and those who served on the home-front and loved us. After all these years, all those times that I wanted to re-connect with you guys but decided against it -- to not bring up dreaded memories -- and then to discover this book on the shelf of the Florida State Univeristy library. I was there looking for other books and ran across this book. I read it immediately there while in the library and was near to tears to experience it all over again -- that which I have buried deep surfaces. I read it again tonight, Saturday, May 05, in about 5 hours; more closely, looking hard at the pictures, the memories flooding back into me. I wish I were near you guys tonight to talk about this. I am surprised that I feel this way. That damn war is still too much with me; what it did to our guys and to those who love them. I wonder too about how much of it remains within us. I am making plans to visit all of you in Bardstown -- I hope I can do the visit in August; that's my goal. See everyone then.

Touching, sad, and unbelievable.

My uncle, Ronnie Simpson, was one of the guardsmen who died on Firebase Tomahawk. I think this book is a wonderful honor to all the men who died there and the families who edured it. It's a great book to see the toll the war took on regular American families.

Read the jacket, it will make you cry!

I am WW 2 vintage, service on Aircraft Carrier Wasp CV18 1944-1945. Nothing, absolutely nothing, that I experienced could equal the story of these men. I did not know any of them but did meet a relative of one(that's how I found the book) As I said the jackt has a touching remark about the Wall". I cried at the wall also!!!