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Book Synopsis Patriotism, Peace, and Vietnam by : Peggy Hanna
Download or read book Patriotism, Peace, and Vietnam written by Peggy Hanna and published by . This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of the War in Iraq, Hanna's book is more timely than ever. In the final chapter of her book, she wrote, "The lessons of Vietnam must never be ignored or forgotten." To her that lesson was simple: American citizens must always question our government, and we must never again sacrifice our sons and daughters to political rhetoric and unsubstantiated fears. Or lies. But we didn't learn the lesson after all. American citizens, in the name of patriotism, have allowed our government to trap us in a war that has become a nightmare. Peggy's story is one that many Americans today can relate to as she recounts her struggle with patriotism and dissent, with trying to understand why we were at war, and who was telling the truth. Peggy's story breaks the stereotype of the Vietnam anti-war demonstrators. She was a housewife and mother of five small children. The stereotype of crazed hippie college students, created by the media, caused unnecessary pain for our troops because they believed the protestors opposed them. They didn't! They opposed our government's policies, not our troops. Patriotic moms and dads just like Peggy Hanna took to the streets too but never received the media coverage that the college campuses did. She describes how much peace activists cared about our troops - a message that never made it to the soldiers dug into the trenches or to their families at home. That was one lesson that was learned. Today anti-war protestors are making sure the troops understand they are protesting our government's policies, not our troops. Opposing the war in Vietnam or the war in Iraq, does not take away their sacrifice and their honor. As one college professor said, "This is a book that all Americans should read."
Book Synopsis Patriotism and Vietnam by : Norman Cousins
Download or read book Patriotism and Vietnam written by Norman Cousins and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Waging Peace in Vietnam by : Ron Carver
Download or read book Waging Peace in Vietnam written by Ron Carver and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American Soldiers Opposed and Resisted the War in Vietnam While mainstream narratives of the Vietnam War all but marginalize anti-war activity of soldiers, opposition and resistance from within the three branches of the military made a real difference to the course of America’s engagement in Vietnam. By 1968, every major peace march in the United States was led by active duty GIs and Vietnam War veterans. By 1970, thousands of active duty soldiers and marines were marching in protest in US cities. Hundreds of soldiers and marines in Vietnam were refusing to fight; tens of thousands were deserting to Canada, France and Sweden. Eventually the US Armed Forces were no longer able to sustain large-scale offensive operations and ceased to be effective. Yet this history is largely unknown and has been glossed over in much of the written and visual remembrances produced in recent years. Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book presents first-hand accounts, oral histories, and a wealth of underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance. In addition, the book features fourteen original essays by leading scholars and activists. Notable contributors include Vietnam War scholar and author, Christian Appy, and Mme Nguyen Thi Binh, who played a major role in the Paris Peace Accord. The book originates from the exhibition Waging Peace, which has been shown in Vietnam and the University of Notre Dame, and will be touring the eastern United States in conjunction with book launches in Boston, Amherst, and New York.
Book Synopsis What We Can and Can't Afford by : W.D. Ehrhart
Download or read book What We Can and Can't Afford written by W.D. Ehrhart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Ehrhart's experiences in the Vietnam War have defined his life--first as an enlisted member of a Marine infantry battalion, then as an author, poet and teacher who has spent fifty years explicating the war and its consequences in books, lectures and interviews. In these essays he explores a diverse range of topics. They include gun violence and the Second Amendment, American politics and the accelerating destruction of civil society, Afghanistan and other foreign policy misadventures, Israel and Palestine, the nature of patriotism, history as fact and mythology, the blessings of technology, the vast mystery of the universe, the attraction of Grand Tour bicycle racing, the much misunderstood writer Stephen Crane, poets you should know about but probably don't. And more.
Book Synopsis Patriotism Without Flags by : Daniel Lang
Download or read book Patriotism Without Flags written by Daniel Lang and published by New York : Norton. This book was released on 1974 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six chapters in this book deal with variations on the general theme of patriotism. The author suggests that the war in Vietnam "has brought patriotism to trial" not only for Americans but nationals of all countries. The book's recurrent theme is that patriotism is a highly individual matter.
Download or read book "A Patriot Like Me" written by Hung P. Le and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hell No written by Tom Hayden and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement -- Introduction -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Acknowledgments
Book Synopsis Give Peace a Chance by : Melvin Small
Download or read book Give Peace a Chance written by Melvin Small and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 14 essays, generated by a 1990 conference on the Vietnam antiwar movement, analyzes movement strategies, the role of the military and women in resistance, and the movement in the schools. [Publishers Weekly].
Book Synopsis Peace is Patriotic: the Riveting and Controversial Stories of Pittsburgh Antiwar Veterans in the Vietnam Era by : Jennifer Brooke Edder
Download or read book Peace is Patriotic: the Riveting and Controversial Stories of Pittsburgh Antiwar Veterans in the Vietnam Era written by Jennifer Brooke Edder and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sacred War: Nationalism and Revolution In A Divided Vietnam by : William Duiker
Download or read book Sacred War: Nationalism and Revolution In A Divided Vietnam written by William Duiker and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the origins, the conduct and the social impact of the war in Vietnam from the Vietnamese perspective.
Book Synopsis The Power of Patriotism by : Beth Chapman
Download or read book The Power of Patriotism written by Beth Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents an enormous love of God and country. It is a story of how a simple speech left the hands and lips of an average American citizen and touched the hearts of a nation starving for a way to express their thoughts and feelings of patriotism. This is the speech that fed that hunger and encouraged a nation to express their thoughts and feelings and empowered a world to embrace them. (dust jacket).
Book Synopsis A Time for Peace by : Robert D. Schulzinger
Download or read book A Time for Peace written by Robert D. Schulzinger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent American historian Robert D. Schulzinger sheds light on how deeply etched memories of the devastating conflict in Vietnam have altered America's political, social, and cultural landscape. Schulzinger examines the impact of the war from many angles. He ranges from the heated controversy over soldiers who were missing in action, to the influx of over a million Vietnam refugees into the US, to the many ways the war has continued to be fought in books and films and, perhaps most important, the power of the Vietnam War as a metaphor influencing foreign policy in places like Iraq.
Book Synopsis Building Infrastructure for Peace by : Bich Dong
Download or read book Building Infrastructure for Peace written by Bich Dong and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in a vision for education to be part of an infrastructure to build sustainable peace in post-war societies, this research maps out the emergence of nationalism and neoliberalism in Vietnam's contemporary education system to investigate the intersections between education, politic, development, and peacebuilding. The research utilizes critical discourse analysis and the positioning theory to examine official and unofficial public discourses, exploring how two seemingly contradicting discourses co-exist and shape the government of Vietnam's ideas of education, citizenship, and peacebuilding. This cartography covers six periods-the French colonization (1862 - 1954); the First Indochina War (1945 - 1954); the Second Indochina War (1955 - 1975); the Bao Cấp period (1976 - 1985); the Đổi Mới reform (1986 - mid-2000s) and the Hội Nhập period (mid-2000s - present). The findings show that colonization and wars gave birth to a vision for a unified communist Vietnam. In post-war Vietnam, nationalism enabled neoliberalism to enter the country as the government saw neoliberal practices, such as privatization and internationalization, as patriotic actions to help turn Vietnam into an economic powerhouse of the global world market. Today, neoliberalism and nationalism not only shape the government's understanding of the purpose of public education but also enable neocolonial ideas, such as the Westernization of the curriculum, to influence educational changes. The end of the research provides a list of questions for future research to look at education as part of an infrastructure for peace, along with suggestions for possible places or directions where future research may take to begin engaging with those questions.
Book Synopsis Patriotism, Morality, and Peace by : Stephen Nathanson
Download or read book Patriotism, Morality, and Peace written by Stephen Nathanson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is rare that a philosopher addresses a topic that is at once of vital interest to non-philosophers and philosophers alike.'-CONCERNED PHILOSOPHERS FOR PEACE NEWSLETTER
Book Synopsis Peace Now! by : Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Download or read book Peace Now! written by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the protests and support of ordinary American citizens affect their country's participation in the Vietnam War? This engrossing book focuses on four social groups that achieved political prominence in the 1960s and early 1970s--students, African Americans, women, and labor--and investigates the impact of each on American foreign policy during the war. Drawing on oral histories, personal interviews, and a broad range of archival sources, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones narrates and compares the activities of these groups. He shows that all of them gave the war solid support at its outset and offers a new perspective on this, arguing that these "outsider" social groups were tempted to conform with foreign policy goals as a means to social and political acceptance. But in due course students, African Americans, and then women turned away from temptation and mounted spectacular revolts against the war, with a cumulative effect that sapped the resistance of government policymakers. Organized labor, however, supported the war until almost the end. Jeffreys-Jones shows that this gave President Nixon his opportunity to speak of the "great silent majority" of American citizens who were in favor of the war. Because labor continued to be receptive to overtures from the White House, peace did not come quickly.
Download or read book Rough Draft written by Amy J. Rutenberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for this group mushroomed between 1945 and 1965, making it less and less likely that middle-class white men would serve in the Cold War army. Meanwhile, officials used the War on Poverty to target poorer and racialized men for conscription in the hopes that military service would offer them skills they could use in civilian life. As Rutenberg shows, manpower policies between World War II and the Vietnam War had unintended consequences. While some men resisted military service in Vietnam for reasons of political conscience, most did so because manpower polices made it possible. By shielding middle-class breadwinners in the name of national security, policymakers militarized certain civilian roles—a move that, ironically, separated military service from the obligations of masculine citizenship and, ultimately, helped kill the draft in the United States.
Download or read book The Turning written by Andrew E. Hunt and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States is perhaps best remembered for its young, counterculture student protesters. However, the Vietnam War was the first conflict in American history in which a substantial number of military personnel actively protested the war while it was in progress. In The Turning, Andrew Hunt reclaims the history of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), an organization that transformed the antiwar movement by placing Vietnam veterans in the forefront of the nationwide struggle to end the war. Misunderstood by both authorities and radicals alike, VVAW members were mostly young men who had served in Vietnam and returned profoundly disillusioned with the rationale for the war and with American conduct in Southeast Asia. Angry, impassioned, and uncompromisingly militant, the VVAW that Hunt chronicles in this first history of the organization posed a formidable threat to America's Vietnam policy and further contributed to the sense that the nation was under siege from within. Based on extensive interviews and in-depth primary research, including recently declassified government files, The Turning is a vivid history of the men who risked censures, stigma, even imprisonment for a cause they believed to be "an extended tour of duty."