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Return to Vietnam - An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans' Journeys (Hardcover)
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Return to Vietnam - An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans' Journeys (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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Between 1981 and 2016, thousands of American and Australian Vietnam
War veterans returned to Viet Nam. This comparative, transnational
oral history offers the first historical study of these return
journeys. It shows how veterans returned in search of resolution,
or peace, manifesting in shifting nostalgic visions of 'Vietnam.'
Different national war narratives shaped their returns: Australians
followed the 'Anzac' pilgrimage tradition, whereas for Americans
the return was an anti-war act. Veterans met former enemies,
visited battlefields, mourned friends, found new relationships, and
addressed enduring legacies of war. Many found their memories of
war eased by witnessing Viet Nam at peace. Yet this peacetime
reality also challenged veterans' wartime connection to Vietnamese
spaces. The place they were nostalgic for was Vietnam, a space in
war memory, not Viet Nam, the country. Veterans drew from wartime
narratives to negotiate this displacement, performing nostalgic
practices to reclaim their sense of belonging.
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