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Uncle Sam Wanted Me: Ripened Reflections of a Lucky Vietnam Era Draftee

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Heel goed: Een boek dat er niet als nieuw uitziet en is gelezen, maar zich in uitstekende staat ...
Country/Region of Manufacture
Vietnam
ISBN
9781665552875
Publication Year
2022
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Uncle Sam Wanted Me : Ripened Reflections of a Lucky Vietnam Era Draftee
Author
Daniel Kornstein
Publisher
Authorhouse
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Topic
General
Number of Pages
220 Pages

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Uncle Sam Wanted Me is the story of Daniel Kornstein's being drafted out of the comparative comforts and intellectual stimulation of law school into the rigors and worries of Army life during the Vietnam War. In clear, entertaining, and memorable language, Kornstein looks back more than half a century to explain and try to understand how he and his generation felt about and dealt with the moral issues posed by the Vietnam draft. The author describes what it was like to receive his draft notice as he studied for his first-year final exams, what his reactions were, and what choices he made and why.Like Proust, the seventy-four-year-old author moves back through time into his memory, dipping into and out of his consciousness, with his old Army dog tags as his madeleine. Kornstein turns the story of his being drafted into the Vietnam Era Army into an expansive meditation on coming of age in the shadow of an unpopular war and making important life decisions about reacting to that war. It is his eloquent attempt to use his personal experiences and moods to explore larger issues, to connect social, cultural and historical dots about the relationship between the military and civilian spheres of life in America, to think about what it even means to be an American citizen.The climax of Kornstein's time in uniform was being assigned as a legal clerk for the prosecutors of a court-martial arising from the horrible 1968 My Lai Massacre in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed, non-combatant old men, women and children. He discusses and analyzes that case.In a final chapter, the author provides a personal long-delayed after-action report summarizing significant lessons from his two-year military experience as a draftee. He considers the pros and cons of an all-volunteer military, whether a draft is necessary and if so how to make it fair and equitable, the possibility of other forms of national service, our continuing entanglement in undeclared wars, more recent examples of war atrocities, and the residual effects of military service on individuals.Uncle Sam Wanted Me offers insights, ripened reflections, for the author's generation as well as for a new generation that overwhelmingly isn't personally exposed to anything military, much less the draft.

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Publisher
Authorhouse
ISBN-10
1665552875
ISBN-13
9781665552875
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Uncle Sam Wanted Me : Ripened Reflections of a Lucky Vietnam Era Draftee
Author
Daniel Kornstein
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
220 Pages

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Copyright Date
2022
Target Audience
Trade

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