Landing Zones - 9780822310419

Landing ZonesSouthern Veterans Remember Vietnam\nAuthor(s): James R. Wilson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822310419, 978-0822310419\nSynopsis\nLanding Zones brings to life the dramatic, gripping, and often painful stories of twenty-four Vietnam Veterans from the American South. The men and women interviewed here represent a remarkable range of experience, including a marine rifleman, a helicopter pilot, an army nurse, a prisoner of war, a riverboat gunner, and the commanding general William Westmoreland. Skillfully interviewed by James R. Wilson, a journalist and Army press officer in Vietnam, each narrative explores and describes the wars events before following the veterans home and carrying them to the present.\nThese stories focus on a uniquely southern view of Vietnam. In terms of numbers the South shouldered more than its share of human cost-31 percent of Americans who served came from one of the.