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ElderRoseDeer38 Four soldiers tell their stories in Chapter One:   Marty Hewer…Four soldiers tell their stories in Chapter One: Marty Hewer pages 25-28Steve Noetzel pages 30-31Jim Kurtz page 36Tom Delts pages 40-41Select two of the four soldiers and tell me what you thought was significant about their stories.Image transcription text”Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam” THESOUNDSCAPE TAKES SHAPE IN April 1963 the Associated Pressreporter Malcolm Browne reported on a massacre of S… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam” 21Richard, the jazz stylist Tony Bennett, or the Kingston Trio, theearly Vietnam soldiers turned to music as a lifeline to t… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textCopyright G? 2015. University of Massachusetts Press. All rightsreserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permissionfrom the publisher. except fair uses permitted under U… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam” 25Smoky,” “Pop Goes the Weasel,””MTA” (known in-country as “The M… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text24 CHAPTER ONE name The High Priced Help in honor of theirrank, the trio contin- ued to play in Vietnam, performing forcommissioned and noncommis- sioned officers as well … Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam” 23Nevertheless, most Americans knew little about Vietnam beyondJFK’s warning that American withdrawal would hand … Show more… Show moreImage transcription text22 CHAPTER ONE In a world where international communismdid seek to expand its sphere of influences, any president wouldhave faced the practical neces- sity of taking a stand a… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textCopyright 6? 2015. University of Massachusetts Press. All rightsreserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permissionfrom the publisher, except fair uses permitted under U… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textCopyright «3 2015. University of Massachusetts Press. All rightsreserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permissionfrom the publisher, except fair uses permitted under U… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textCopyright GD 2015. University of Massachusetts Press. All rightsreserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permissionfrom the publisher. except fair uses permitted under U… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text30 CHAPTER ONE on their half-day off. Beach Boys music blaredfrom Sony tape decks. ‘She’ll have fun, fun, fun ’til her Daddy takesher T-bird away . . .’ Men stood around in faded unifor… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam” 31 JohnnyB. Goode.’ We recruited a guitar player out of the ARVN. Wecalled him Guitar Hung. He was out there on guard dut… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text32 CHAPTER ONE “Hello Vietnam” typifies the genreof so-called prowar songs, many of them sentimental balladscentered on the separation of soldiers from their famil… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam” 33 GreenBerets” was the most popular song of 1966, surpassing”We Can Work It Out,” “Paint It Blac… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textCopyright GD 2015. University of Massachusetts Press. All rightsreserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permissionfrom the publisher. except fair uses permitted under U… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam” 35 flies,the beggars? Where was the fear? No one in the movie was afraid.The Vietnamese were so polite and grateful, and the G… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textCopyright GD 2615. University of Massachusetts Press. All rightsreserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permissionfrom the publisher, except fair uses pennitted under U…. Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam” 37 TheHigh Priced Help conclude with yet another sardonic remix ofSadler’s final verse: And when my little boy is old His si… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textCopyright c: 2015. University of Massachusetts Press. All rightsreserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permissionfrom the publisher, except fair uses permitted under U… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam” 39 didn’tunderstand their point of view. I guess I’m painting a not-too-pleasant picture of what we were: just kind of scatterb… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textCopyright GE 2015. University of Massachusetts Press. All rightsreserved. May not be reproduced in any form without permissionfrom the publisher, except fair uses pennitted under U…. 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