WALSH'S WAR
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WALSH'S WAR

A Very Different Path Through Vietnam

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

WALSH'S WAR

A Very Different Path Through Vietnam

About this book

Michael Walsh had enlisted in the Army when he was sixteen years old. He departed shortly after turning seventeen. About a week after turning eighteen, he was in Vietnam. He was a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division during 1967 and 1968. This included the Tet Offensive early in 1968.

After approximately four months, it became clear that the war was more often being waged against the South Vietnamese people rather than on their behalf. The horror of war was intensified by the lack of moral purpose and the absence of legal justification for a war that was neither defensive nor declared.

The author decided to protest the war. He refused to participate by refusing to carry a rifle and, of course, endured a great deal of opposition, some of it violent and life-threatening.

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Table of contents

  1. Timeline of Important Events of US Involvement in Vietnam
  2. No! I Won’t Fight Your War!
  3. Vietnam—Arrival
  4. Not Quite Flying
  5. Culture Shock
  6. Night Ambush Patrol
  7. Awards and Decorations Clerk
  8. Grenade!
  9. The Brothers’ March
  10. Full Auto
  11. Just Get on the Chopper…
  12. Kill or Be Killed
  13. The Ones We Left Behind
  14. Muster
  15. The Gambler
  16. Convoy
  17. Motherless Child
  18. Close, Close Call
  19. Sniper Bait
  20. A Strange, Strange Land
  21. I Find ā€œEmployment!ā€
  22. Bless Me, Father…
  23. Long Binh Jail
  24. Working with the Mama-sans
  25. A Flood of Mail!
  26. Quite a Ride!
  27. My Parents Send a Lawyer!
  28. Eddy Putnam
  29. Guarding the Dump
  30. The Last Muster
  31. A General’s Lament
  32. Graves Registration
  33. Down and Out
  34. Watching It Burn
  35. The Lackey
  36. Father Mantz
  37. The Hero
  38. The Way Home
  39. Mother and Child Reunion
  40. Postscript