Candidate profile: Donald Lowery
AGE: 62 GEOGRAPHY: Born in New Castle, Ind. Grew up on a farm in Downstate Mackinaw. Now lives on a farm in Downstate Pope County. HISTORY: Graduated from Deer Creek Mackinaw H.S., 1965; drafted into Army in 1966, attended officer candidate school, eventually rising to captain; served in Korea in 1967-68; went to Vietnam in 1969, awarded Bronze Star, Air Medal and Army Commendation Medal …
John Wayne & Ezra Taft Benson – The Vietnam War
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The Green Berets $2.76 Anyone who fought in Vietnam can tell you that the war bore little resemblance to this propagandistic action film starring and codirected by John Wayne. But the film itself is not nearly as bad as its reputation would suggest; critics roasted its gung-ho politics while ignoring its merits as an exciting (if rather conventional and idealistic) war movie. Some notorious mistakes were made–in the fi… |
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Born on the Fourth of July $2.99 … |
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Ballads of the Green Berets $16.98 Barry Sadler drove a sharp spike into the already polarized American psyche with his unabashedly patriotic and pro-Vietnam War chant “Ballad of the Green Berets,” which rocketed to the top of the charts in 1966. Supporters of the war in Southeast Asia embraced “Ballad of the Green Berets” as an anthem; antiwar activists derided it as jingoistic, machismo garbage. In retrospect, they were both righ… |
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The Vietnam War: A Graphic History $8.73 When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, “Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam,” everyone understood. The Vietnam War has become the touchstone for U.S. military misadventures—a war lost on the home front although never truly lost on the battlefront. During the pivotal decade of 1962 to 1972, U.S. involvement rose from a few hundred advisers to a fighting force of more than one million. This same pe… |
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Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, The $31.05 Gunfighter Nation concludes Richard Slotkin’s three-volume study, which began in 1973 with the publication of Regeneration Through Violence, of the significance of the frontier in the American imagination. Looking primarily at pulp novels and films, Slotkin takes a painstakingly thorough look at the relationship between imagery of the West in industrial mass culture and U.S. foreign policy du… |
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Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War $17.50 Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities, and other “comforts” share the frame with combat.To address a tenuous morale situation, mil… |
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NO SUBSTITUTE FOR VICTORY [ VIETNAM WAR DOCU-DRAMA ] $20.00 … |
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Marine Corps Films: WWII, Korea & Vietnam – The Chesty Puller Story A Marine Corps produced documentary on Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, narrated by John Wayne, including an interview with the general. The video highlights Puller’s colorful career from his days in Haiti and Nicaragua, his service in the Pacific during WWII and his exploits with the 1st Marine Division in Korea…. |