Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides

PatriotsPrefacePart One: IntroductionsCommandersBernard Trainor: It turned out the major of Danang was a double agentDang Vu Hiep: With all those choppers they seemed terribly strongWar HeroesRoger Donlon: We were babes in arms in every wayTran Thi Gung: I was stuck in a tunnel for seven daysPaying the PriceTa Quang Thinh: They carried me the whole way back to the NorthGeorge Watkins: That sand was probably the only thing that saved mePhan Xuan Sinh: Ail my ancestors are buried hereWhere is Vietnam?Jo Collins: I just thought I was going to EuropeDeirdre English: How can my country be at war and I don't know about it?Part Two: Beginnings (1945-64)History Is Not Made with IFSHenry Prunier: These were not ragtag farmersYo Nguyen Giap: The most atrocious conflict in human historyDeliver Us From EvilDaniel Redmond: The doctor who won the war in IndochinaRufus Phillips: Tell 'em I'm not French before they lynch meNgo Vinh Long: If they're making maps, they're preparing for warKick the Tires and Light the FiresRichard Olsen: It was like 'Terry and the Pirates'Malcolm Browne: You could smell the burning flechLe Leiu Browne: There was one coup after anotherPaul Hare: My cock lost the fightThe Emporor Has No ClothesPaul Kattenburg: What's good for Peru is good for VietnamEvelyn Colbert: Dissent which contradicted the public optimism was ignoredChester Cooper: Boy, you speak just like an AmericanSergei Khruchchev: The Vietnamese had their own ideasParadise IslandJohn Singlaub: We sent them all back with a generous gift packageLuyen Nguyen: She divorces her second husband and waited for mePart Three: EscalationsTrails to WarVu Thi Vinh: The Truong Son jungle gave us lifeNguyen Thi Kim Chuy: We came home hairless with ghostly white eyesHelen TennantHegelhimer: I was their wife, their sister, their girlfriendYou Want Me to Start World War III?James Thompson: This was crazy and deceitful policy makingSeth Tillman: We could stop this war tommorrowCharles Cooper (I): He used the f-word more freely than a marine in boot campWalt Whitman Rostow: Take the North Vietnamese of Vinh hostageCentral HighlandsDennis Deal: Man, if we're up against this, it's gonna be a long-ass yearWard Just: It approached the vicinity of the spiritualLe Cao Dai: Sometimes I operated all night while the staff took turns pedaling the bicycleFrom Civil Rights to AntiwarJulian Bond: They said I was guilty of treason and seditionGeneral Baker Jr.: When the call is made to free the Mississippi Delta…I'll be the first one in lineThe Ultimate ProtestAnne Morrison Welsh: It was like an arrow was shot from Norman's heartFree-Fire ZoneJim Soular: A goddamn chopper was worth three times more than DavidTriageJames Lafferty: No draft board ever failed to meet its quotasDavid M. Smith: The knife manSylvia Lutz Holland: We saved their lives, but what life?Chi Nguyen: Being wounded was not considered the worst thing that could happenMorale BoostersBobbie Keith: I got a butterfly right on the butt. So that's my war storyJames Brown: After they got the funk they went back and reloadedQuach Van Phong: An artist ca be as important in war as a soldierNancy Smoyer: I can't believe the Donut Dollies got us to do thatVu Hy Thieu: Nothing was more essential than our sandalsJoe McDonald: I was president of my high school marching bandAir WarJopnathan Schell: I had my notebook right there in the planeHarlan S.Pinkerton Jr.: Good luck and good huntingLuu Huy Chao: Before I trained as a pilot I had never been in an airplaneNguyen Quang Sang: That was the first time I ever saw an AmericanFred Branfman: What would it be like to hide in a cave all for five years?Prisoners of War (I)Porter Halyburton: I don't see how you've got a worse place than thisTroung My Hoa: They tried to make us say, 'Down with President Ho!'Randy Kehler: Friction against the wheelCameras, Books, and GunsPhilip Jones Griffiths (I): Go see what they did to those people with your moneyLarry Heinemann: We had this idea that we were king of the fucking hillDoung Thanh Phong: We didn't need a darkroomJoan Holden: The counterculture was visible everywhereOliver Stone: He lived to kill. He was like a real ArabNguyen Duy: Whoever won, the people always lostYusef Komunyakaa: Soul Brothers, what you dying for?H.D.S. Greenway: We would write something ans the magazine would ignore it if it wasn't upbeatAntiwar EscalationsTodd Gitlin: A rather grandoise sense that we were the stars and spear-carriers of historyTom Englehardt: It was like Vietnam had somehow come all the way into our living roomsVivian Rothstein: What? Meet separately with women?They Slept At Our HousePaul Warnke: We fought for a separate South Vietnam, but there wasn't any SouthPart Four: The Turning Point (1968-70)TetTran Van Tan: He asked me for directions to the police sensationsBarry Zorthian: Then-boom!-Tet comes alongPhilip Jones Griffiths (II): You're not safe in those citiesNguyen Qui Duc: I was living a double lifeBob Gabriel: We buried our own men right thereTuan Van Ban: Attack! Attack! Attack!Memorial Day 1968Clark Dougan: He Was Only 19-Did You Know Him?From Johnson to NixonJohn Gilligan: Our only shot was to help Humphrey break away from JohnsonPeter Kuznick: Political conversion was the greatest ahprodisiacJ. Shaeffer: The Palace GuardSamuel Huntington: You had to be pretty stupid to stay out in the countrysideDouglas Kinnard: While we had the power, it turned out they had the willA Three-Square-Mile Piece of the United StatesTom O'Hara: It was like being in a minimum-security prisonFamiles At WarJohn Douglas Marshal: You will not be welcome here againHuynh Phuong Dong: Recieving a letter was a mixed blessingRichard Houser: They told me I needed to choose between my country and my brotherNathan Houser: A sign this country has grown up will be when there is a memorial erected to the war resistersSuzie Scott: This nice young man from the FBI was hereLam Van Lich: I was away from home for twenty-nine yearsMy LaiLarry Colburn: They were butchering peopleMichael Bernhardt: The portable fire-free zoneYou Look Like a GookVincent Okamoto: Damn, I'm a GookWayne Smith: I was thinking God they didn't have air supportCharley Trujillo: It sure as hell wasn't 'English only' in VietnamAn Acute Lack of ForgetfulnessGloria Emerson: Before the war, I was Miss Mary PoppinsNguyen Ngoc Luong: To get their ID cards, the girls had to go to bed with the policeFrom Cambodia to Kent StateAnthony Lake: Quitting wasn't heroicA.J. Langguth: I think they pictured it as a kind of huge bamboo PentagonTom Grace: As much as we hated the war on April 29, we hated it more on April 30Part Five: Endings (1970-75)The End of the TunnelAlexander M. Haig Jr.: Even the tough guys…caved inMorton Halerin: Kissenger did not trust anybody fullyJudith Coburn: Vietnamization wasn't working any better than AmericanizationWe Really Believes…Beverly Gologorsky: God forbid my boss finds out I'm hereNguyen Ngoc Bich: Why should my son die for your country?Chalmers Johnson: The campus was turning into a celebration of MaoismSteve Sherlock: Steve Sherlock, bronze star with a V.WatergateDaniel Ellsberg: We're eating our youngEgil "Bud" Krogh: Let's circle the wagonsThe World Was Coming to An EndFrank Maguire: The whole attitude was, stand back little brother, I'll take care of itCharles Cooper (II): All this area was Indian countryEverybody Thought We'd Won the WarCharles Hill: Reporters just kept writing as if it were TetParisDaniel Davidson: I wouldn't buy a used car from that manNguyen Thi Binh: The longest peace talks in historyNguyen Khac Huynh: It wasn't a mistake, it was an inexplicable crimePrisoners of War (II)Jay Scarborough: I read Anthony Adverse about four timesTran Ngoc Chau: The curriculum was designed to detoxicate usJohn McCain: Americans like conspiraciesPatty and Earl Hopper Sr.: What mushroom do they think we were hatched under last week?Gloria Coppin: The government wanted to control the POW/MIA movementCopllapseFrank Snepp: There was classified confetti all over the treesTroung Tran: We could either lose or tie, but not winThe Merriment was Short-LivedLe Minh Khue: The letters remain, but the senders are gone foreverPart Six: Legacies (1975- )Missing In ActionTran Van Ban: We saw so many parents crying for their lost childrenTom Corey: Why do you hate the Vietnamese?War-Zone ChildhoodsTran Luong: I never got there in time to capture an American pilotBong Macdoran: It's not worth my energy to lay blame on anybodyLuong Ung: People just disappeared and you didn't say anythingSilencesToshio Whelchel: i didn't her to worry, so I liedR. Huynh: Your real self was only for youJayne Stancavage: I just want to know what happenedSouvenirsHoang Van Thiet: They bought Zippos as a kind of birth certificateTapsLeroy V. Quintana: Old geezers…playing taps on a tape recorderWilliam Westmoreland: I was leading an unpopular warThai Dao: The first time I ever encountered the Vietnam War was in Hollywood moviesTim O'Brien: You can't talk with people you demonizeHuu Ngoc: We no longer hate the AmericansWayne Karlin: The roof that hasn't been builtDuong Tuong: Because love is stronger than enmityAcknowledgmentsIndex