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This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflections on the war, from his combat experiences to his exploration of American veteran identity to his struggles with PTSD. His career as an advocate for the welfare of GIs and veterans exposed to dangerous radiation and herbicides is covered. Several pieces deal with how the Vietnam experience is being archived by scholars for historical interpretation. These collected works serve as a study of how wars are remembered and written about by surviving veterans.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Foreword by Steve Rees
Preface
Featured Articles
Searching for Vietnam's M.I.A.s
Vietnam's Shadow over Abu Ghraib
The Wall: Entering the Aura of the Dead
The Spat-Upon Vet Revisited
Annals of the New Left: Dissing Golub
Poetry
Introduction
Black Silks, Black Mud
Dignum et Justum Est
Shades
War Birthed Me
It's Hard to Tell Sometimes...
Criticism and Reviews
Bombing for the Hell of It (Michael Uhl and Carol Brightman)
¿¿Excerpt from an Interview with Robert Strange McNamara
Revising the Meaning of the Vietnam War
The Problematic: Penny Lewis Repairs Some Misconceptions About the Vietnam War
Apocalypse Now? The Strange Jeremiads of Christopher Hedges
Déjà Vu All Over Again: Notes on a Jonathan Schell Review
An Enfant Terrible Stumbles Upon the Vietnam War
¿¿Veteran War Crimes Testimony, 1969-1971: An Annotated
Clipping File
Meeting the Enemy: A Marine Goes Home
Combat and Reconciliation: A Vietnam Vet Returns to Heal Old Wounds
Armed with the Facts
A Skillful Chronicle of Kerry's Conflicts
War and Remembrance
Warrior's Honor and the Ordeal of Survival
That's Vietnam, Jake
The Jaws of Victory: A Historian Argues We Could Have Won-and Nearly Did Win-the Vietnam War
War and Madness
Obsessed by Vietnam
How We Bombed in Laos
On the Lam from Vietnam
Travels with Charlie
The God That Resigned
Letters Home
Gung Ho
The Chosen: An Essay
Some Notes on Being a Veteran in America
PTSD
The Politics of PTSD
PTSD from the Inside Out
Surviving PTSD
In My Activist Voice
Heeding the Call
With Paul and Do' at My Lai
VFP Agent Orange Delegation in Vietnam
Kerry and the Year of the Veteran
Warriors for Peace
Antiwar Vets Raise Their Voices
Vets Bite War
Occupying the Contested Zones of Meaning
With Tod Ensign
Introduction
Soldier as Workers
Changes in U.S. Army Mean Soldiers May Unionize
A Union of Soldiers
Support Still Strong for Military Union
Prospects for a Military Union Setback
Coalition Organizes Against Senate Bill
Unorganizing GIs
A Victim of the Tests
Blowing the Whistle on Agent Orange
Excerpt from G.I. Guinea Pigs: How the Pentagon Exposed Our Troops to Dangers More Deadly Than War
¿¿Introduction
¿¿Chapter 7-The Ranch Hands: "Only We can Prevent Forests..."
¿¿Chapter 10-The VA Fiddles while Agent Orange Burns Vets
Appendix: Author's Testimony Before the House Committee of Government Operations Hearings on the Phoenix Program
Index
About the author
As a political activist, Michael Uhl was co-founder of the Safe Return Amnesty Committee and the GI and veteran advocacy organization, Citizen Soldier. An independent scholar, his articles and reviews have appeared in The Nation and The Boston Globe. He lives in Walpole, Maine.
