An Anthropologist Goes to the Vietnam War

by James D. Sexton

On 10 May 1968, President Lyndon Johnson activated James Sexton from the U.S. Army Individual Ready Reserve. The machine-signed orders gave him 30 days to withdraw from his second year of graduate school in anthropology at UCLA and report to Ft. Lewis, Washington. Letters and tapes by James and his wife, Marilyn Rex, serve as the basis for their story from 1968 to 1969, focusing on Ft. Lewis, Ft. Belvoir, Cam Ranh Bay, Nha Trang, and the surrounding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523735864
• ISBN13: 9781523735860
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"