Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becoming somehow: frank, as if he no more would have gotten a false tooth than lied to you for no good reason. He spoke Massachusetts-city-boy and we liked each other right away. We compared notes on dates and places in the Army; we had overlapped in Vietnam but were never in the same places. He had hated it, he said; but he was just a kid, like them, he said, with another wave of his hand...
...Loud and ignorant, man, you know? Seventeen years old, just running away from the judge and cops. I liked it OK for a while, but it got old. I came back from Vietnam and they made me an M.P. because they didn't need any more helicopter crew chiefs. I was pissed off; screwed around the rest of the time; you know, marked time until I got out. I liked flying though; never had to kill anybody, just brought ammunition to people who did and took out our dead ones," he said, breaking into a grin. "Anyway, I been hassling...
...only institution with a comparable collection is Cornell, but its collection is "not nearly as good," Vietnam historian Alexander B. Woodside, associate professor of History, said yesterday...
...collection includes a great deal of material published in Vietnam during the 1920s and 30s which, Woodside said, makes the collection quite valuable. Because the collection was published in Western languages--French and English--it will be housed in Widener instead of the Harvard Yenching...
Historian Joseph Buttinger has donated his collection of materials on the history of Vietnam to the Harvard College Library...