Name: Medic! The Story of a Conscientious Objector in the Vietnam war (en Inglés)
SKU: 1685734
Price: 16570.00 CLP
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Author: Ben Sherman
ISBN: 9780891418481

portada Medic! The Story of a Conscientious Objector in the Vietnam war (en Inglés)

Medic! The Story of a Conscientious Objector in the Vietnam war (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Presidio Press

Autor

Ben Sherman

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0891418482

ISBN13

9780891418481

N° edición

Categorías

Biografía: histórica, política y militar
Historias reales de guerra y combate

Medic! The Story of a Conscientious Objector in the Vietnam war (en Inglés)

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and intelligence "On the firing range during the third week of Advanced Individual Training, I put down the handgun I had been assigned and stood back from the shooting podium. The sergeant barked something barely intelligible about six years in Leavenworth Federal Prison for refusing a direct order. I repeated that I wasn't going to train myself to kill anybody. Like falling dominoes, every soldier on the range stopped to turn and look at me. The sergeant called me a coward. I said again that I wasn't going to shoot the pistol..." In August 1968, Ben Sherman- then an eighteen year old college sophomore - was drafted, yet another Midwestern boy called to serve his country in the rice paddies of Vietnam. After his attempt at conscientious objector status was refused by the draft board, Sherman distinguished himself almost immediately upon entering the military: he refused to fire a weapon. Instead, he told his superior officers that he was willing to serve in any capacity that would not require him to carry a gun. Within a few short weeks he found himself in swamps of Vietnam, working as a combat medic. From his start in the morgue, cleaning the bodies of fallen soldiers before they were sent home for burial, to operating on dying men while under front line fire, Sherman's story captures the sounds, smells, and terror of Vietnam as experienced by so many American soldiers who ended up in Vietnam without wanting to be there. Written with a rare combination of humour, honesty, and intelligence, Medic! offers a glimpse into a world where unrelenting pressure and unbearable circumstances were commonplace, where heroes fell on the battlefield daily, and where one man struggled to keep his conscience clear in the face of unspeakable horror.