A Place to Talk About War

I would like to hear from soldiers who have been in combat situations, from their families, or from others interested in this conversation. I am a graduate student interested in war rhetoric. I have no preset agenda: I simply want to listen, to learn, and to be supportive.

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Location: Texas, United States

Married, two kids. Worked in the defense industry for 20 years before taking a different path. I'll be starting my dissertation on the rhetoric of war in a few months. This semester I am teaching Freshman Composition. I DON'T CARE ABOUT BLOGGERS' SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, OR ANY OTHER GRAMMAR MATTERS--I JUST WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU.

Friday, March 17, 2006

Fun Facts from Vietnam

I'm interrupting the theoretical posts for this bit of info:
  • By October 1967, the U.S. military had built more than 40 ice cream plants in Vietnam "in an effort to make the troops feel more at home."
  • In October 1967, there were almost half a million military personnel in Vietnam, but only one in eight was going to infantry units that did most of the fighting.

From David Maraniss' They Marched into Sunlight. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

posted by English Professor | 2:04 PM