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MILITARY BOOKS
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Doug Bradley
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Doug Bradley "is a Madison, Wisconsin-based Vietnam veteran who has written
extensively about his Vietnam and post-Vietnam experiences. He also has more
than 30 years of experience as a communications professional in higher
education, principally with the University of Wisconsin. Doug was drafted into
the U. S. Army in March 1970 and served as an information specialist
(journalist) at the Army Hometown News Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and U.
S. Army Republic of Vietnam (USARV) headquarters near Saigon. Following his
discharge and tenure in graduate school, Doug relocated to Madison where he
helped establish Vets House, a storefront, community-based service center for
Vietnam era veterans.A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Doug earned his
Bachelor of Arts in English from Bethany College. He also holds a Masters in
English from Washington State University.
In addition to writing a blog for the Huffington Post, Doug is the co-author of
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Music and the Vietnam Experience with Dr. Craig
Werner, UW-Madison Professor of Afro-American Studies, with an anticipated
publication in 2013. The two also co-teach a popular course at UW-Madison
entitled The Vietnam Era: Music, Media, and Mayhem. Doug and his wife, Pam
Shannon, are the parents of two adult children. DEROS Vietnam is
his first book.
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According to the book
description, DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle
"presents a unique, fictional montage of the war, and postwar, experiences of
Vietnam support troops. Structurally based on Ernest Hemingways In Our Time,
DEROS Vietnam (the acronym stands for Date Eligible for Return from Over Seas)
is a riveting collection of 16 short stories and 16 interlinears about the GIs
who battled boredom, racial tensions, the military brass, drugs, alcoholand
occasionally the enemy.
From cooks and correspondents to
clerks and comptrollers, DEROS Vietnam distills the essence of life for soldiers
in the rear during the war and, later, back home in a divided America. Vietnam
veteran Doug Bradley, a former Army journalist who served in the air-conditioned
jungle at U. S. Army Headquarters near Saigon in 1970-71, tells these compelling
stories with wit, intensity, and empathy. In doing so, he provides a gateway to
a Vietnam experience that has been largely ignored and whose reverberations
still echo across America."
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