Stolen valor how the Vietnam generation was robbed of its heroes and its history
| Main Author: | Burkett, B.G. 1944- |
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| Other Authors: | Whitley, Glenna. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dallas :
Verity Press,
c1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Year in Vietnam
- Welcome home, baby killer?
- Will the real vietnam vet stand up?
- The ragtag brigade
- CBS hits "the wall within"
- Atrocities: the good war versus the bad war
- The creation of posttraumatic stress disorder
- Rambo: an American hero
- Would I lie to you?
- The VA and the PTSD "epidemic"
- The Vietnam veterans' guide to tax-free living
- PTSD made easy
- "Vietnam killed him": suicide
- An army on the streets: homelessness
- The purple heart flea market
- Fudging the records
- War stories and other lies: writers go to Vietnam
- The historian and the "gay beret"
- The minority myth: Blacks in Vietnam
- Baby, you looked like the Cong: women and Vietnam
- Bogus guests at the Hanoi Hilton
- The myth of agent orange
- the VVA: Vietnam Victims of America
- America's wailing wall
- Appendix i: Medal of Honor, Vietnam
- Appendix ii: Distinguished Service Cross, Vietnam
- Appendix iii: Navy Cross, Vietnam
- Appendix iv: Air Force Cross, Vietnam
- Appendix v: U.S. military POWs, Vietnam (returned
- alive)
- Endnotes
- Index.