Sno-Isle Big Read : The Memories We Carry

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR . "And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It...

"If you can't accept death, you'll never get over it. So what the Memorial's about is honesty. . . You have to accept, and...

The Vietnam War affected all our communities – large and small – across the entire country. Growing up in a very small community in the foot...

Many Americans think real-life war is like a John Wayne movie. American soldiers are upright, brave, and honorable. When someone dies, the s...

The turbulent events of the world in the 1960’s were only background noise to my life. In the early part of the decade, I was more co...

Don was a writer I'd known in Sacramento. He'd asked me to fall by and see what he'd been writing. He was living on Page St at t...

By the time I met Stan, the Vietnam War had been over for almost 25 years. And yet there was a part of him that was still living through it ...

I was born in 1968, I have no memory of the Vietnam War and my public education never touched on it. Perhaps the topic was too “hot” or cont...

It was three months past the end of my one year tour in Vietnam. Months ago I had put in my extension to stay longer, and since I hadn'...

I remember as a young boy when my aunt’s husband was killed in Vietnam. My uncle was a pilot in the Air Force and left behind my aunt and th...

I worked for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Aurora, Illinois during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Having worked my way from ...

A few months ago I had a group book report assignment for school that needed to be about a different country, and we picked Vietnam. My clas...

I was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1970-1974. I have many fond memories of those years, including...

Citation for the award of the Medal of Honor to STEPHEN HOLDEN DOANE Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, U .S. Army Company B, 1st Ba...

Many major events happened in the 1960s and early 1970s. I was born in the mid 1950s. I was a child in the 1960s. I was in high school in t...

The Things They Carried is a novel that brings back memories. While I wasn’t around to participate in the events of the Vietnam War era dir...

This past Sunday, the Everett Public Library screened two documentary films produced during the time of the Vietnam war. The creation and d...

There’s a saying in libraries, “Every book, its reader.”* Indeed, every piece of writing is a unique experience for each reader. For me, the...

My husband was in Law School and I was in my second year of teaching elementary school when his Army orders to Viet Nam came. He could get ...

My brother Guy Blackwelder was a Vietnam veteran. He died of a heart attack alone in a trailer on top of a hill with marijuana growing all a...

I am certainly no expert on Vietnam War films, in fact I remember being less than impressed by most of the early choices. But then came Plat...

1969: Skinny and small for my age, I looked even younger than my 13 years, and despaired of ever looking like the girls who filled the pages...

"Cigarettes were the Agent Orange you paid for.” -Sully, Hearts in Atlantis The Things They Carried is widely hailed as one of the fin...

November 7, 1972. I was a college freshman at the University of Illinois in Urbana, waiting patiently in a long line to vote for the first ...

Having grown up in the Vietnam War era, I’d seen the images of jungles, warfare, and war protest on the evening news nearly every day of my...