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Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience - The Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat Medics during the Vietnam War (Hardcover)
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Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience - The Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat Medics during the Vietnam War (Hardcover)
Series: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
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Despite all that has been written about Vietnam, the story of the
1-A-O conscientious objector, who agreed to put on a uni-form and
serve in the field without weapons rather than accept alternative
service outside the military, has received scarce atten-tion. This
joint memoir by two 1-A-O combat medics, James C. Kearney and
William H. Clamurro, represents a unique approach to the
subject. It is a blend of their personal narratives—with
select Vietnam poems by Clamurro—to illustrate noncombatant
objection as a unique and relatively unknown form of Vietnam War
protest. Both men initially met during training and then served as
frontline medics in separate units “outside the wire†in
Vietnam. Clamurro was assigned to a tank company in Tay Ninh
province next to the Cambodian border, before reassignment to an
aid station with the 1st Air Cavalry. Kearney served first as a
medic with an artillery battery in the 1st Infantry Division, then
as a convoy medic during the Cambodian invasion with the 25th
Infantry Division, and finally as a Medevac medic with the 1st Air
Cavalry. In this capacity Kearney was seriously wounded during a
“hot hoist†in February 1971 and ended up being treated by his
friend Clamurro back at base. Because of their status as “a new
breed of conscientious objectorâ€â€”i.e., more political than
religious in their convictions—the authors’ experience of the
Vietnam War differed fundamentally from that of their fellow
draftees and contrasted even with the great majority of their
fellow 1-A-O medics, whose conscientious objector status was
largely or entirely faith-based.
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