Vietnam: The Heartland Remembers

By Stanley W. Beesley

Book Overview

This oral history offers the voices of thirty-three Oklahomans. Some of them fought in the Vietnam War, and others waited--some are still waiting--for their loved ones to come home, alive or in a body bag. In the ranks of Stanley W. Beesley's compilation are reluctant warriors, gung ho marines, skeptics, embittered former patriots, and humanists--whites, blacks, Indians, and Hispanics; men and women; officers and grunts. These men and women recount their experiences not as heroes but as ordinary people thrust by politics and fate into the uncommon circumstances of the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, they bring to life their deadened memories and remind us of what some have chosen to forget.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806121629
• ISBN13: 9780806121628
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The best oral history about Vietnam I have ever read.

"Vietnam, the heartland remembers" is absolutly riviting. It is one of the most accurate accounts of the war that I have read. I highly reccomend it to anyone of the so called "gen X" crowd, (I am personally part of that crowd). It may offer some reason to why we are the way we are. Remember,"those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it". To anyone who served in that war it will be a touching and personnal experience. As a verteran of the Persian Gulf War it made me proud and humbled at the same time. Let us not forget our fallen warriors or the those who survived to teach us.