Voices From Vietnam Book Report
Voices from Vietnam
Voices from Vietnam, a book by Barry Denenberg to some it can be comforting, some gruesome, and to some informative. This book is not just a group of facts with the main events of the war, it talks with many different people that had very important jobs during the war. To me this book was very informative because I knew very little about the war. A few well known people have writings in this book such as President Dwight D. Eisenhower. It is very interesting to see the very diverse experience of the war. Although, they are all different people and played different roles in the war, the stories all relate in some way.
My grandfather signed up for the war when he was only eighteen years old! He did not want to go to Vietnam but if he did not sign up for the war he was going to be drafted. Thankfully, he was not involved in much of the shooting. He loaded and unloaded ships. He does not like to talk about the war but he will if you ask. I am very proud to know such a brave …show more content…
They were only interested in what the war was like in terms of their preconceptions of what war was about: “How many people did you kill?” That kind of thing. Not really interested in the intense experiences we’d undergone, and how they might affect somebody... For this man the war was a horrific event. Sadly, this man was not the only man who went through problems like this. Woody Wanamaker of the United States Army describes After I got out of the military... And I was angry all the time. I don’t even know why I was so angry... I carried around that anger like a fifty-pound bag of poop on my back. I used it as a reason for drinking, as a reason for my marriage breaking up... I was getting thoughts like, “I’d be better off dead.” I never got violent or anything, but it was there. I knew it was only a matter of time before it came
Voices from Vietnam, a book by Barry Denenberg to some it can be comforting, some gruesome, and to some informative. This book is not just a group of facts with the main events of the war, it talks with many different people that had very important jobs during the war. To me this book was very informative because I knew very little about the war. A few well known people have writings in this book such as President Dwight D. Eisenhower. It is very interesting to see the very diverse experience of the war. Although, they are all different people and played different roles in the war, the stories all relate in some way.
My grandfather signed up for the war when he was only eighteen years old! He did not want to go to Vietnam but if he did not sign up for the war he was going to be drafted. Thankfully, he was not involved in much of the shooting. He loaded and unloaded ships. He does not like to talk about the war but he will if you ask. I am very proud to know such a brave …show more content…
They were only interested in what the war was like in terms of their preconceptions of what war was about: “How many people did you kill?” That kind of thing. Not really interested in the intense experiences we’d undergone, and how they might affect somebody... For this man the war was a horrific event. Sadly, this man was not the only man who went through problems like this. Woody Wanamaker of the United States Army describes After I got out of the military... And I was angry all the time. I don’t even know why I was so angry... I carried around that anger like a fifty-pound bag of poop on my back. I used it as a reason for drinking, as a reason for my marriage breaking up... I was getting thoughts like, “I’d be better off dead.” I never got violent or anything, but it was there. I knew it was only a matter of time before it came