Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War [Paperback]

W. D. Ehrhart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1995 | ISBN-10: 0870239589 | ISBN-13: 978-0870239588 | Edition: 2 Sub

From 1969 to 1974 Ehrhart was just Passing Time. His reentry into the "world" began with his enrollment as a 21-year-old freshman (and token Vietnam vet) at Swarthmore College. At first simply trying to bury his past, Ehrhart slowly if inexorably came to understand what happened to him, and why, in Vietnam. Interspersed are flash-backs to the war itself. It is the story of political--and personal--awakening. As the war dragged on, the United States' deceitful involvement and its perpetuation of fallacies and lies about the war's conduct forced Ehrhart to confront his own feelings about his government, country, and self. Throughout, the reader shares with Ehrhart his odyssey through naivete, growing awareness, angry withdrawal and, finally, a measure of peace.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

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"Thoughtful and probing...a must."--Choice

"Possibly the greatest and most valuable of all the [Vietnam War] autobiographies...should be required reading."--H. Bruce Franklin, Rutgers

"Full of honest and personal accounts."--Fellowship

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr; 2 Sub edition (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870239589
• ISBN-13: 978-0870239588
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #692,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hippy VV mbr VVAW E-6 from PA dumps cold H2O on YKW!, July 9, 1998

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This review is from: Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War (Paperback)

Passing Time's time pasting took only one night! In that time W. D. Ehrhart flashed me back to '70, 68, 69, 71, and the nitexmasarclights of '72, Ho ho ho chi minhnity returns with both laughter and extreme anger! Ah! The ying and yang of it to me who calls Bill and old old dear friend whom I had never availed myself to his insight and wit like I did last night with Passing Time! Five stars *****, but never too soon to be a new motion picture. Of an old e-6 hippy from Perkasie, Pa, who graduated from Swarthmore College and worked at sea like all "Old Salt" gyrenes who went a few places, saw a few things and still live to tell about it in all speldid details from the heart. Perspicatious (if that can be now a new adjective!) jvb