Exit wounds a Vietnam elegy
On October 19, 1965, American Special Forces in Vietnam came under attack at their camp at Plei Me. This marked the first major confrontation between the North Vietnamese and US armies during the war. Throughout six days of constant hostile fire, Captain Lanny Hunter sorted the seriously wounded fro...
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2023
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Exit wounds : |b a Vietnam elegy / |c Lanny Hunter. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Night medevac -- Letter from a ghost Mǫi -- Going back -- Ghost army -- Hồ Chí Minh City -- The Presidential Palace and the American Embassy -- The American War Crimes Museum -- The Cathedral Notre Dame -- Purple hearts held in reserve -- De Opresso Liber -- Y-Kre Mlo -- The reality of my war -- The damnedest story you've ever heard -- Lake Biên Hòa -- War as routine -- Actionable intelligence -- Duc Co -- Guardians at the gate -- Know your enemy -- Hearts and minds -- No words, no tears -- FURLO -- Camp Tet number three -- One cow -- Doctor Vinh Phulon -- Broken brain -- Foregone conlcusion -- I knew you not forget -- Pleiku -- Don't come in from the south--it's murder -- Zapped under our own flag -- Silver stick under siege -- Combat and medicine -- Letter to Lisa -- Skyraider down -- Volleyball and choppers -- Detachment C-2 -- When will they ever learn? -- All gone -- Saint Crispin's Day -- Tracks of tanks and tears -- Vaporous nightmare -- United States very famous in the world, but selfish -- The war unhinged -- Proud, profane, and a little mad -- The orderly departure program -- The cemetery for those of the city who sacrificed themselves for the country -- The Vietnamese -- The walking wounded -- John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center -- The Vietnam War Memorial -- Irrevocably linked -- Signposts -- Last letter to Joey -- The unfathomable experiences of war -- The death of Y-Kre Mlo. | |
| 520 | |a On October 19, 1965, American Special Forces in Vietnam came under attack at their camp at Plei Me. This marked the first major confrontation between the North Vietnamese and US armies during the war. Throughout six days of constant hostile fire, Captain Lanny Hunter sorted the seriously wounded from the dead and saved those comrades-in-arms he could. For his actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In Exit Wounds, Hunter recalls his tour in the central highlands of Vietnam in 1965/66 at the bloody interface of medicine and combat. Paralleling this story in his return in 1997 to find and help his Montagnard interpreter, Y-Kre Mlo, after ten years in a communist reeducation camp. This pilgrimage takes HUnter back to old haunts and battlegrounds--and to a war now seen through a very different lens. Peopled with those who were dedicated , courageous, gentle, proud, profane, and a little mad, this book explores what happens when leaders place personal ambition over honor, and America's "moral high ground" is soaked with the blood of its young men and women. -- Inside cover. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |x Biography. | |
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