This book sparked so many emotions in me and taught me so much about the Vietnam War and soldiers on the battlefield. I saw the movie years ago and immediately went and got the book. seeing us in full fatigues with actual weapons in hand made their recollection of the experience frighteningly powerful. Due in part to escalating advances in military technology, twentieth-century modern combat was exponentially more devastating than any previous incarnation. But I feel a need to know about this war, and these letters home from the war are heartbreaking. On the soundtrack, we hear the voices of these soldiers, in the words they wrote home. "Last Letters," the chapter containing missives sent by men shortly before their deaths, is particularly haunting. RELIGION: Confucianism; Taoism; Buddhism, Roman Catho, Ellsberg, Daniel Pain and loss. Recuerdas las abreviaturas para chatear? Therefore, its best to use Encyclopedia.com citations as a starting point before checking the style against your school or publications requirements and the most-recent information available at these sites: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. In their letters there is a sense of wonder at this new world they have found, a world so different from the American cities and towns they left behind. ." edited by Bernard Edelman for The New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission. Some of the letters are from teens that we're killed in action and some are from teens that made it through their deployment. The _____ distance between two points is a straight line. Both were equally powerful. The average age was 18-19 years old. This is one of the very few books where I've both read the book and watched the movie. I'm sobbing. This book is a collection of letters that were written home from soliders during the Vietnam War. The movie follows a chronology that roughly corresponds to a soldier's year in Vietnam. The U.S. troops were like monsters after the massacre, this did not set well back home. "An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam."David Halberstam. I can't. I'm sorry.". How might the Mylai Massacre effect the support of war from home? The media kept the citizens up to date on the recent events in the war. One soldier writes of the bravery of men who rescued their comrades under enemy fire. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. A portrait of Americans' experiences in Vietnam, told through letters written to friends and loved ones back home. Absolutely no words can describe exactly how this book made me feel. Um, I'm actually going to go buy it on Amazon right now. Sign in Dear America: Letters Home From. When you see the screens that present the following information, copy it into the table. O'Brien, Tim Major ad/promo. The Mission of the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission, New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission, Literary Collections / American / General. Why? Then he screened the entire archive of TV news footage shot by NBC-TV from 1967 to 1969 - 2 million feet of film totaling 926 hours. Pretend not to notice if he acts dazed, eats with his fingers instead of silverware and prefers C-rations to steak. ." The bestselling book and basis for the Emmy award-winning documentary (letters read by Robert DeNiro, Robert Downey Jr., Robin Williams) is now available in ebook edition! Much has been made of the Vietnam War being the first shown to the American public on television and in relatively uncensored photographs, so maybe it's that narrative that prompts this feeling, but: as touching and painful as these letters are, they simply aren't as powerful alone as the HBO special (same name) for which the letters, read by actors, provide the only narrative over film and pictures of the war and the boys (the children) who fought it. //]]>, The twentieth century was a decade of war: of the hundred million war-related deaths worldwide since 1700, over 90 percent occurred in the twentieth century. Therefore, show no alarm if he insists on carrying a weapon to the dinner table, looks around for his steel pot when offered a chair, or wakes you up in the middle of the night for guard duty. At the beginning of each chapter is a description of the letters contained therein (last letters home, "cherries", etc), and a little bit of melodrama. "An overwhelmingly eloquent book of the purest and most simple writing on Vietnam. In their letters there is a sense of wonder at this new world they have found, a world so different from the American cities and towns they left behind. Not because of how it was written, but the subject. They said the war was pointless. //