Veteran's Day: Vietnam War

Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.

Best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck, having been either drafted or enlisted in the military during the Vietnam War, pledge they will come home together, and Morris, a sailor on the USS "Boston," relies on that promise to stay strong while his courage and resolve are tested under attack.

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

An American soldier in Vietnam decides to leave the war and simply walks out of the jungle, with the intent of going to Paris.

Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.

A graphic novel chronicling the Vietnam War from the early 1960s through the evacuation of Saigon in 1975, told from the American perspective, and explaining major military campaigns and political choices made in the United States.

Written between 1968 and 1970, the posthumously discovered diary of a young female North Vietnamese doctor, killed by American forces not far from where she worked, offers an account of her devotion to family and country, and the horrors of war.

Dean Ellis Kohler, aspiring rock star, is drafted and sent to Vietnam, where he forms a rock 'n' roll band at the behest of his Captain.

Author Philip Caputo, a Vietnam veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, provides an in-depth examination of the significant events and battles of the Vietnam War in 10,000 Days of Thunder.

Contains letters and poems written to families and friends by soldiers expressing their homesickness and the horrors of war.

Juan Ramirez chronicles the experiences he had while serving two tours of duty in the Vietnam War and discusses how his family's military experience influenced his decision to enlist, how he recovered from his wounds, and how he dealt with survivor's guilt.

Presents the idea that the notorious My Lai, Vietnam, massacre that occured during the Vietnam War, was not an isolated incident and that throughout Vietnam American troops systematically killed civilians.

O'Brien's searing memoir of his years as a soldier in Vietnam takes readers with him through the ghostly ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong.