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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
6) Guns Up!
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It was the call that sent Marine Johnnie Clarkand his buddy, Chan racing to the hottest spot in a firefight with their M60 machine gun. The life expectancy of a machine gunner in combat in Vietnam was said to be seven-and-half second after a firefight begins. Three things got Johnnie and Chan through months of deadly warfare alive. The first was dump luck. The second was the teaching of a big Marine called Red. The third a faith in something bigger...
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"An all-encompassing study . . . Holm shows the interconnecting historical, social and psychological attributes of Native American veterans." -Historynet.com
At least 43,000 Native Americans fought in the Vietnam War, yet both the American public and the United States government have been slow to acknowledge their presence and sacrifices in that conflict. In this first-of-its-kind study, Tom Holm draws on extensive interviews with Native American...
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