Troubled Hero: A Medal of Honor, Vietnam, and the War at Home

by Randy K. Mills

Born in rural Illinois, Ken Kays was a country boy who flunked out of college and wound up serving as a medic in the Vietnam War. On May 7, 1970, after only 17 days in Vietnam and one day after joining a new platoon, the young medic found himself in a ferocious battle. As a conscientious objector, Kays did not carry any weapons, but his actions during that engagement would earn him the Congressional Medal of Honor. Yet Kays' valor came during just...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253347955
• ISBN13: 9780253347954
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher