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To Bear Any Burden A Hoosier Green Beret's Letters from Vietnam
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By Daniel FitzGibbon
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(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2005. Pp. xxv, 144. Photographs, maps. $19.95.)
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| Personal letters written by American soldiers from combat areas of operation can be insightful artifacts. While veterans' war stories, told years after the event, can be warped by tricks of time and memory, letters often offer more immediate and honest assessments. Daniel H. FitzGibbon's correspondence from Vietnam to his parents in Columbus, Indiana, lends particular insights into a war still intensely debated today. |
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