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Back to the future or war,
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This review is from: No Victory Parades - the Return of the Vietnam Veteran (Hardcover)
Historian and author Murray Polner interviewed over 200 Vietnam veterans, and some of their family and friends. In this book he presents nine veterans in detail, grouped as "Hawks," Doves," and "The Haunted." Vietnam in 1971 was a different kind of war--now familiar (think Iraq, Afghanistan). The portraits could be from today, as we contemplate rising rates of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and suicide among vets. This is a good place to start for anyone interested in war veterans--and war itself. Polner lets the men speak for themselves; they do so with plain eloquence, reflecting patriotism, confusion, anger, love, despair, fear and the struggle to readjust. The plight of veterans today is foreshadowed, as is the difficulty of shaking off the consequences of being trained more effectively to kill, documented by Col. Dave Grossman On Killing Publisher Back Bay Books; Revised edition 2009.
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No victory parades;: The return of the Vietnam veteran by Murray Polner (Unbound - 1971)
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