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Reviewed by Joel P. Rhodes | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 105.1 | The History Cooperative
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March, 2009
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Steel Shavings, Volume 39
Brothers in Arms

Edited by James B. Lane
(Gary: Indiana University Northwest, 2008. 240 pages. Illustrations, index. Paperbound, $12.50.)

In this latest volume of the Steel Shavings series—a social history journal focusing on the Calumet region of northwest Indiana—historian James B. Lane has again woven together a thought-provoking, often entertaining, and at times tragic collection of oral histories and recollections from Vietnam veterans. The series first featured the stirring voices of local Viet-nam veterans in 1988, when history students at Indiana University Northwest compiled oral interviews in conjunction with Professor Lane's course on the war. At a time when Reagan-era revisionists were attempting to recast the Vietnam conflict as a noble and winnable endeavor, Lane and his students intended to reinforce the real "lessons of Vietnam"—from the hazards of misunderstanding vital national interest to the absence of a clearly defined exit strategy—by using the reminiscences of the working-class men and women who paid for those mistakes in southeast Asia. Now, twenty years later, with the United States again groping for answers in another unconventional war, Lane's students have gathered together another album of visceral testimony in the hopes of revisiting many of those apparently still unheeded lessons of Vietnam. . . .
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