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Spoken Word: Aural Histories of Vietnam
Links to personal accounts and stories of the
Vietnam War as told by those who experienced it.
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Virtual
Vietnam Oral History |
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In 1999 the Vietnam Center
initiated the Oral History Project. An
element of the Vietnam Archive, the
mission of the Oral History Project is to
create and preserve a more complete record
of the wars in Southeast Asia by
preserving, through recorded interviews,
the recollections and experiences of the
men and women who participated in these
wars, as well as those military and
civilian personnel involved in activities
surrounding the wars on the homefront. The
Archive believes that the history of the
wars in Southeast Asia is not complete
without the inclusion of the voices of the
men and women who were involved in the
wars. Texas Tech University. (HistoricalVoices.org) |
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| StoryCorps:
a national project to instruct and inspire
people to record each others' stories in
sound. |
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Carol
Harllee interviews her father Robert.
"What was it like being a chaplain at
war in Vietnam?"
(1:10) (StoryCorps) |
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James
Jordan Interviewed by Jacqueline Gore
Jacquelyn Gore of Independence, West
Virginia, brought her father, James Jordan
of Lake Lynn, Pennsylvania to the
StoryCorps booth in Morgantown. She asker
her father about his first experiences as
a young soldier in Vietnam.
(5:07) (West
Virginia Public Broadcasting) |
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Michael
Crowe tells his son about his sergeant
during the Vietnam War. "I'm sure
for the rest of his life he's had
nightmares, and he's had a tortured,
tortured soul."
(1:03) (StoryCorps) |
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Bruce
Wolcott and Rich Hawkins both served in
The Vietnam War. Here, Bruce
interviews his good friend Rich. (3:59) (StoryCorps) |
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| Other stories... |
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Expert
on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder speaks
at KVCC |
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WMUK Local with Gordon
Evans, April 10, 2006 |
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A
Vietnam Vet: In His Own Words |
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NPR News & Notes
with Ed Gordon, April 29, 2005 |
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Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder by Alix Spiegel |
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Thirty years ago no one
believed that the psychological problems
suffered by Vietnam soldiers were caused
by their service in the war. Producer Alix
Spiegel documents the evolution of
post-traumatic stress disorder from a
nameless experience into an officially
recognized medical condition. (12:10) (text) |
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